GREEN, Ohio - 2012 ibingunyaka omangalisayo kwisikhululo seenqwelomoya esincinci esinokuthi! Iirekhodi zachithwa kuwo onke amanqanaba. Ayingowona nyaka uxakekileyo kwimbali yethu kuphela, u-2012 uphawule unyaka wethu wesithathu ngokulandelelana ukophula irekhodi. Samkele kananjalo iSouthwest Airlines kusapho lweCAK lweenqwelomoya. Bebonke baBathengi abayi-1,838,083 abahambe besiya kwaye besuka e-Akron-Canton bephumelela ngowama-2011 ngabantu abangaphezu kwama-173,686 – ukwanda nge-10.4 ekhulwini. Ukongeza, inyanga kaDisemba ka-2012 iphinde yaphula irekhodi, nabakhweli abangaphezu kwe-173,686 bebonke, benyuka ngeepesenti ezi-5 xa kuthelekiswa nenyanga enye kunyaka ophelileyo. UDisemba ukwaphawula ukonyuka kwethu kwenyanga kwama-21 ngokulandelelanayo.

"Ngokwemigangatho yonke, i-2012 yayingakholeleki kwi-CAK," utshilo uRick McQueen, umongameli kunye ne-CEO. “Ukonyuka kwamanani aphindwe kabini kwitrafikhi kunye nokwamkela uMzantsi-ntshona kwenza unyaka ukhumbuleke ngakumbi. Ngaphezu koko, sinethemba ngekamva lethu. Sinikezela ngeyona mali iphantsi yomndilili wenqwelo-moya kwilizwe kunye namava okuphumla kwisikhululo seenqwelomoya. Abathengi beza bevela kuwo wonke ummandla ngale ndibaniselwano kwaye asinakuba nombulelo ngakumbi.”

Wonke umthuthi ubone ukonyuka kwabakhweli bebonke ngonyaka kubandakanywa i-Southwest Airlines kunye ne-AirTran Airways, (ngoku eyi-subsidiary ephethwe ngokupheleleyo ye-Southwest Airlines) nabakhweli abangama-807,911, ukunyuka kwe-10 ekhulwini; I-Delta ethwele ama-353,583, ukwanda kweepesenti ezilithoba; I-US Airways ethwele ama-267,517, ukwanda kwe-11 ekhulwini; I-Frontier Airlines ikhule ngeepesenti ezisixhenxe nabakhweli abayi-199,400; kunye neUnited Express, ethwele abakhweli abangama-83,962 kulo nyaka, ulwando olunye ekhulwini.