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This August was the busiest in Denver International Airport’s 16-year history, with a total of 5,037,947 passengers travelling through the facility.
DIA officials said it was the first time that DIA surpassed 5 million passengers during August. The count also is a 2.3 percent increase from the 4,924,060 travellers who used DIA in August 2010.
The year-to-date traffic for August 2011 is 35,758,746, an increase of 794,347 passengers — another 2.3 percent increase — over the same eight-month period in 2010 when DIA saw 34,964,399 travelers.
Ann Schrader: 303-954-1967 or aschrader@denverpost.com.
