2012 traffic up 6.6 per cent at Canadian Rockies International Airport

Cranbrook’s Canadian Rockies International Airport enjoyed a good year in 2012 as traffic was up 6.6 per cent with a total of 113,000 incoming and outgoing passengers passing through the facility.

The airport has plans to develop the 70-hectare business/industrial lands adjacent to the airport. This development is slated to start in 2013.

All in all this makes the Canadian Rockies International Airport the 10th busiest in the province of B.C., which still keeps airport management and civic officials hopeful that sometime in the not too distant future West Jet will deem Cranbrook one of their destinations of choice.

The other major airport in the Kootenays, the West Kootenay Regional Airport in Castlegar, sees an annual traffic load of 70,000 passengers.