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October 13, 2009
From March 14th to May 7th next year Southwest Airlines will run a fourth daily round trip flight between RDU and Orlando. This will raise the airline’s daily departures at Raleigh-Durham International Airport to 30.
In all, Southwest will be adding 52 round trip flights to its operations, a move made possible by winter’s lower air traffic and thereby shorter flight times.
According to the RDU Airport Authority, more than 9.7 million passengers traveled through the Raleigh-Durham International Airport in 2008, one of the highest passenger counts on record. The airport serves a region that consistently leads the nation in surveys related to technology, new business large and small, higher education and quality of life. Cities and locales include Raleigh, Cary, Wake Forest, Durham, Chapel Hill, Apex, Morrisville, Fuquay-Varina and others.