Spokane International Airport sees increase in passengers in 2010

According to the Spokesman-Review, SIA’s passenger counts rose by 4% from 2009 to 2010 coming in at about 3.2 million. This supports that the local economy has approximately bottomed. Different sectors may reach a bottom at different points in time – we might, for example, see continued weakness in real estate this year due to foreclosures and too many developments still idle from the housing bubble.

The updated passenger count brings the 2010 number to on par with 2004 and just slightly below the 1996 total.