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Denver International Airport sets passenger record
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Denver International Airport served more passengers in 2022 than ever. The 69,286,461 passenger level eclipsed the pre-pandemic yearly best in 2019 of 69,015,703 and marked a 17.8% increase from 2021, according to a news release. October was the busiest month of the year – and ever – with more than 6.5 million passengers. That annual record came…
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Colorado Springs sees ‘strong tourism’ but not complete pandemic recovery in 2022, Visit Colorado Springs CEO says
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Despite Colorado Springs hotel occupancy dipping slightly in December, the month capped a year of “strong tourism” for 2022, Doug Price, president and CEO of Visit Colorado Springs, says. December’s occupancy rate of 49.1% was down 5.2% from the year prior, according to the Rocky Mountain Lodging Report. “December was somewhat impacted by the winter…
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Southwest Airlines cancellation woes last another day Thursday going into holiday weekend
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Denver continued to be a the top of the list for Southwest Airlines cancellations with around 300 into and out of Denver International Airport Thursday. In a Thursday news release which expressed “our deepest apologies,” the company is promising that the backlog will lift by the holiday weekend. In an email, the troubled company said…
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Southwest flights in Colorado: More cancellations, but some on time Wednesday
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The Southwest Airlines crisis that unfolded this past weekend is still affecting flights at the Colorado Springs Airport. Here are a few updates on Wednesday’s scheduled flights. Of the 12 scheduled in-bound flights today, eight flights have been canceled and one has been delayed as of 10:30 a.m., according to the airport’s flight status tracker.…
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Denver International Airport to review thousands of flight cancellations over holiday weekend
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The Denver International Airport will work with Southwest, Frontier and United Airlines to review why thousands of Colorado flights were canceled or delayed over the Christmas holiday weekend. Airport authorities announced Wednesday that it would conduct the reviews over the next two weeks. The reviews aim to uncover what happened, why it happened and how…
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Denver airport officials outline $1.3B improvements plan
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Denver International Airport CEO Phil Washington made the case Thursday for a $1.3 billion “completion phase” project to get the Jeppesen Terminal ready for 100 million passengers a year. “We feel like this is the best time to finish what we’ve started at the terminal,” Washington said. Thursday’s news conference, which also included Michael Sheehan,…
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INSIGHTS | My memories of Justice Greg Hobbs flow like a river
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Greg Hobbs was a lot like the Colorado rivers and lakes he loved: Deep, cool and a little bit of a lot of things. I still haven’t gotten my mind or heart around the fact he’s gone, even through he died Nov. 30 of a pulmonary embolism, two weeks short of his 77th birthday, surrounded…
