Article: Late-summer vacations, PGA boost airport traffic in Oklahoma

Increased vacation travel gave Oklahoma's two largest commercial airports sizeable passenger traffic increases last month.

"It was a really big year for people with vacations," said Lynn Scott, the owner of Sunbelt Travel in Tulsa. "August usually isn't the hugest month; it's usually July. We seemed to have a lot of people go in August this year where normally it's not one of our busiest months."

The number of August boarding passengers on Will Rogers World Airport commercial flights rose 8.29 percent from a year ago to 163,370. Perhaps signifying vacation's end, the Oklahoma City airport logged 10,000 more arriving passengers - that 173,767 total topped year-ago results by 7.45 percent.

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