Freight, passengers, and revenue totals
are down at Palmdale airport

However, the number of domestic passengers increased more than 38 percent during the period of January to April, when compared to the same four-month period in 1993, according to a Los Angeles Department of Airports report.

Passengers at the airport numbered 2,543 in April, down from 3,023 carried one year earlier.

For the first four months of the year, the airport served 15,497 passengers, up from 11,178 in 1993.

The airport has seen a decrease in overall passengers since the departure of Skywest Airlines at the end of February.

Air freight totals have also dropped, down more than 72 percent from April 1993: from 829 pounds carried to 230 pounds.

These totals showed a smaller decrease for the first four months of the year, declining 42.5 percent over the previous year. The airport handled a total of 2,760 pounds of air freight in January through April 1994, compared to 4,797 for the same period in 1993.

Revenue-related operations at the airport fell 54 percent in April, to 334 departures and arrivals from 726 in April 1993.

For the first four months of the year, those operations show a decrease of more than 18 percent, from 2,533 departures and arrivals in 1993 to 2,084 this year.