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Austin Air Cargo Plunges 42% in September Comparisons

AUSTIN-It's brutal if not downright ugly in a September to September match-up of air cargo traffic at Austin's Bergstrom International Airport. The first nine months of 2000 and 2001 show a 6% drop, but the month-to-month match was down 42%.

By Tim Green | Updated on October 26, 2001

AUSTIN-Air cargo traffic in and out of Austin Bergstrom International Airport dropped 42% in September from September 2000. Through September, air cargo is down 6% from the comparable period of 2000. Much of the decrease was attributed to the shut down following the Sept. 11 attacks, but the high-tech slowdown also took some blame.

Here are the figures: September air cargo was 21.3 million pounds, down from a record of 36.8 million pounds and a 49% increase over September 1999. Air cargo was 247.3 million pounds from January through September, off from 258 million in pounds for the first nine months of 1999.

Even before September, the high-tech slowdown was reflected in Austin’s air cargo figures, which, until this year, had marched steadily upward in the previous few years. “We’d been seeing a steady decline anyway because of the high-tech market itself,” says Jackie Mayo of the aviation department.

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