Passenger numbers continue to decline at the Kamloops Airport
KAMLOOPS — More than 29,000 people flew through the Kamloops Airport last month, down just 1.5 per cent from the same month in 2016.
Year-to-date, passenger traffic is still down nearly six per cent.
Manager Fred Legace says traffic is slowly recovering after a quiet January and February.
“The first two months of the year were marked by a drop that was really related to the number of people who were traveling back and forth in Northern Alberta for work in the oil and gas sector. As a sector, it is starting to come back again. There have been some noises coming out of Alberta that they are looking to rehire some of the people that were laid off,” said Legace.