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Lafayette Regional Airport Sets
Passenger & Cargo Records for 2007!
Lafayette Regional Airport reached a historical milestone in 2007 with an unprecedented 14 percent growth. The year will go into the record books as the busiest ever in terms of passenger and cargo activity since record keeping began in the early 1970s.  The airport finished its busy year with 221,722 enplanements, the number of passengers boarding aircraft, and 219,904 deplanements, an increase of 27,966 and 26,366 respectively over 2006 figures.  Activity in December continued a yearlong trend of increased activity for the month over the previous year.  Enplanements were 18,920 and deplanements totaled 18,659 for the month. Both enplanements and deplanements figures ranked as the best on record for the month of December. 

Equally impressive were the cargo totals for 2007, which set records for amount of cargo enplaned and deplaned.  Enplaned cargo for December was 1,073,422 pounds, bringing the totals for 2007 to 14,967,523. Deplaned cargo was 1,595,798 pounds in December, bringing the record total to 16,950,114.  Deplaned cargo for the year marked a remarkable 87.4 percent increase over the previous year.
Enplanement Figures
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008  
      13,828       14,181       12,719       11,391       12,352       13,113       14,726       16,493       17,020 JANUARY
      13,055       14,347       13,613       10,559       12,580       12,620       14,353       16,115       16,502 FEBRUARY
      17,433       15,859       13,312       12,549       13,305       14,804       16,676       17,484       17,789 MARCH
      16,054       16,836       13,712       13,057       14,447       14,208       18,390       19,142       16,220 APRIL
      16,958       18,289       14,884       13,897       14,813       15,321       20,598       20,637       21,096 MAY
      16,616       17,491       14,325       13,954       15,051       15,160       19,548       20,180   JUNE
      17,119       17,960       14,672       15,692       15,427       15,497       19,306       20,032   JULY
      15,477       16,718       13,249       13,271       13,361       13,082       17,251       18,421   AUGUST
      14,782       10,041       11,188       12,911       13,479       12,988       16,729       17,263   SEPTEMBER
      16,803       13,245       12,097       14,876       14,608       18,694       17,805       19,930   OCTOBER
      16,350       13,481       12,979       13,539       13,892       15,884       18,374       18,920   NOVEMBER
      14,707       12,765       12,824       14,489       13,630       16,925       17,364       17,065   DECEMBER
    189,182     181,213     159,573     160,185     166,945     178,296     211,120     221,682       88,627 TOTAL
Deplanement Figures
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008  
    13,634       13,978       11,596       10,718       11,330       12,233       14,321       15,838       16,219 JANUARY
    12,836       13,774       13,357       10,488       12,538       11,748       14,109       16,333       16,607 FEBRUARY
    17,499       16,175       13,144       11,959       12,851       13,843       16,725       17,781       18,086 MARCH
    16,146       17,207       13,379       12,590       14,585       14,125       18,836       18,867       17,005 APRIL
    16,073       16,972       13,808       12,928       13,288       14,605       20,032       19,615       19,334 MAY
    16,364       17,128       13,925       13,935       14,705       14,640       18,867       19,929   JUNE
    16,664       17,636       14,250       15,433       14,815       14,346       18,953       19,868   JULY
    16,356       17,566       13,351       13,737       13,726       14,233       18,679       19,113   AUGUST
    14,460         9,666       11,051       13,000       12,758       13,706       16,674       16,840   SEPTEMBER
    16,366       13,073       12,031       15,187       13,698       18,785       18,418       20,037   OCTOBER
    16,179       13,077