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ONTARIO, Calif. - April 27, 2017 -- Airline passenger traffic at Ontario International Airport (ONT) increased 6.2 percent in March 2017 compared with the same month in 2016. In March 2017, the airport served a total of 379,656 passengers compared with 357,590 in March 2016.

 

Domestic passenger traffic in March 2017 totaled 371,079, an increase of 7.1 percent over 346,491 in the same month the previous year. International passenger traffic decreased from 11,099 in March 2016 to 8,577 in March 2017, a 22.7 percent decline.

 

For the first three months of 2017, domestic passenger traffic jumped 7.4 percent from 940,705 in 2016 to 1,010,740 in 2017. International passenger traffic declined 12.8 percent in the three-month period from 33,568 in 2016 to 29,266 in 2017.

 

Air cargo freight handled increased 13.1 percent from 46,393 tons in March 2016 to 52,460 in March 2017.  For the first three months of 2017, air cargo freight handled increased 10.7 percent from 125,857 tons to 139,376.