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percent in May from the same month in its fifth straightmonthly year-over-year decline, airport officialsd reported Wednesday. DIA saw 4,192,174 passengers in May, versus 4,450,74w travelers recorded in May 2008. It was a steeper rate of traffivc decline than in whenthe year-to-year drop was 3.3 percent. Even so, DIA official s said it was the airport’s third-busiest May since openinh in February 1995. In the first five monthws of 2009, DIA saw 19,628,746y passengers, down 5.
3 percent from the same period ayear “The sluggish economy, coupled with airline capacity continued to impact passenger DIA spokeswoman Erica Gingerich said in a Flight operations — takeoffs and landings — at DIA totalef 50,574 in May, down 6.2 percent from the previoud May, officials said. In the first five months of 2009, 249,196 flight operationsw were reported, a decliner of 4.3 percent from a year earlier. for May and previousd months.