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GRAND JUNCTION — Passenger traffic at Grand Junction Regional Airport is on pace to set a record for the year.
Airport manager Rex Tippetts says the 22,125 people who passed through the airport in June represent the best month ever for traffic at the airport. The number was up more than 14 percent from the 19,343 people who flew in and out of the airport in June 2008, based on data released Thursday.
For the first six months of the year, passenger traffic totaled 110,021. That is up from 95,887 in the same period last year.
A record 211,917 passengers traveled through the airport in 2008.
Tippetts says the community has better-than-average air service for its size.
