Denver International Airport Continues Record-Setting Streak with Busiest January Ever
04-Mar-2016 Denver International Airport (DEN) set a record for the busiest January in the airport's history, with nearly 4.3 million passengers, marking the fifth consecutive record-setting month for the airport.
A total of 4,289,432 passengers traveled though DEN in January 2016, an increase of 7.6 percent over the 3,985,981 passengers in January 2014. A record-setting 54 million passengers traveled through the airport in 2015.
"Denver International Airport continues to see record-setting growth in passenger traffic, driven by additional airline capacity in Denver and the continued strength of the city's economy," airport CEO Kim Day said. "Additionally, U.S. News & World Report earlier this week named Denver the best place to live in the United States. Given the strength of Denver's origin and destination traffic, we expect that news could bolster even more interest in travel to and from the Mile High City."
International flights that use the airport's customs facility increased nearly 13 percent in January, with overall international traffic up 2 percent over the same time last year. Lufthansa Airlines will add to the airport's international offerings this spring with the launch of nonstop service from Denver to Munich, Germany on May 11.
On the domestic side, Virgin America will launch nonstop service to San Francisco on March 15. With more than 860,000 passengers traveling between the two cites annually, Denver is the largest market from San Francisco that Virgin America does not currently serve and is the No. 1 destination requested by the airline's high-tech corporate accounts. Denver represents the 24th destination served by Virgin America, and the carrier will be the 19th airline operating regularly scheduled commercial flights at DEN.
Mail, freight and express cargo operations saw 41,900,155 pounds of cargo in January 2016, a decrease of 7.4- percent compared to the same month in 2015.