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Spurred by a surge in international airline traffic, total traffic at Sea-Tac Airport jumped by more than 10 percent during the year's first quarter.
International traffic at Sea-Tac increased 18.3 percent during January, February and March to 730,588 compared with 617,575 in the first three months of 2007.
Several airlines have inaugurated new international service at Sea-Tac. Air France is now serving Paris. Lufthansa is offering service to Frankfurt and Northwest is now competing with British Airways to London. Both Hainan and Northwest airlines plan new service from Sea-Tac to Beijing.
Domestic traffic for the first quarter totaled 6,428,837 passengers up 9.22 percent from the previous year's quarterly total of 5,885,990, according to airport figures. Combined domestic and international traffic increased 10.08 percent.
Sea-Tac's traffic increase was well above the norm for airports nationwide, perhaps an indication that the economy has yet to slow down as much here as in other regions.
In Denver, for instance, traffic is up 5.2 percent. In San Francisco, the total passenger count is up 6.6 percent. At Chicago's O'Hare Airport, passenger volume was down 8.98 percent in the first quarter.
Airlines warn that rising fares are beginning to hurt passenger traffic as the year moves onward. Fares are rising to compensate for rising fuel prices.
Major domestic airlines have raised prices 11 times this year to try to keep pace with fuel price increases. Any slowdown in passenger traffic typically lags be several months those price increases because many travelers buy their tickets month in advance.
