BWI sets March passenger record
BWI Marshall Airport recorded its busiest March ever as 1.9 million passengers passed through it -- a 3.3 percent increase from the same month of 2010, Gov. Martin O'Malley has announced.
The March figures brought the airport's 12-month rolling total to 22.3 million -- also a record -- according to airport officials. Th represents a 6 percent increase over the same period of 2009-2010.
BWI has set monthly passenger records in 10 of the past 11 months, according to the Maryland Aviation Administration. The March increase exceeds the global average of 2 percent, officials said.
