MARCH COMES IN LIKE A LION AT QCIA
More flights to be added in June, 2010
( Moline/Quad Cities) March enplanements at the Quad City International Airport exceeded 40,000 passengers, Bruce Carter announced today at the Metropolitan Airport Authority monthly board meeting. "While this was technically the fourth best March on record, we consider any month that we enplane forty-thousand passengers or more to be a very strong travel month," Carter said. 41,296 passengers were enplaned which is up 3% over last March. The airport is up 1% overall compared to last year. Last month, spring break travelers filled the parking lot and the perimeter, which was expanded in 2009.
Earlier this month, Delta added more flights to two existing cities. On April 6, flights to Minneapolis-St. Paul increased from two to three flights per day. An additional flight was added to Atlanta the same day. In early June, one additional Memphis and Detroit flight will be added to the current schedule. "We are very pleased that these flights have been added this month," Bruce Carter, Director of Aviation, said. "Once the Memphis and Detroit flights are added in June, we will have a total of 220 additional seats into the daily schedule. This gives our travelers more choices when making their plans."
AirTran Airways has made a change to their 5:35 a.m. departure to Atlanta. Effective April 6, the departure time changed to 6:35 a.m. On May 27, the AirTran afternoon arrival that currently returns from Atlanta in the 5:00 p.m. hour will land at 6:01 p.m. That flight will then depart to Atlanta at 6:36 p.m.
The Quad City International Airport offers nonstop service to 8 cities on 4 major airlines, and strives to make travel 'easier' for passengers from throughout Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois.
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Remember- Honor Flight of the Quad Cities will be taking their #6 and #7 flights this Friday, 4/23, and Saturday, 4/24 to Washington D.C. Flights depart at 7:00 a.m. Passengers begin arriving at 5:30 a.m. Flight participants are scheduled to return somewhere between 10:15 - 10:30 p.m. to a welcome home celebration filled with relatives and more. The public is welcome to attend.
