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Show Bonanza Air Lines Boardings at Cedar City Show High Percentage Increase for Year Bonanza Airlines released this week results of passenger traffic during the 1902 year and Cedar City was listed as one of the stops with the highest per cent of Increase In-crease during the period. Cedar City boardings for the 19C2 year were listed as 3,255 in 19G2, a 25 Increase from the 2,597 boardings recorded In 196L The Increase brought the average dally boardings at the Cedar City Ci-ty terminal to approximately nine throughout the year. Eo.ianza Air Lines system captured cap-tured one of the biggest passenger passen-ger traffic percentage gains in the entire airline Industry. The year's figures showed the Bonanza Bonan-za system passengers to be an all-time high of 425.475 for 1962, compared with 316,010 for 1961, an Increase of 35. Record Bonanza boardings at Cedar City and other points, too, proved the growth was system-wide. system-wide. Only four cities on the entire en-tire system failed to gain at least ten per cent Salt Lake City was up from 16,655 to 19,061, an Increase of 14. Thoenlx enplanements Increased In-creased from 72,385 In 1961 to 87,313 In 1962, up 21. San Diego Die-go Increased 27 from 10,814 to 13,692 paw,nRPrs- Grand Canyon Can-yon business was up 51. A flood of passengers to Bonanza Bo-nanza on its Los Angeles-Las Vegas run was partly responsible for the big increase. At Las Vegas, Ve-gas, passengers were up 79. from 61,127 to 109,582. At Los Angeles International Terminal there was a 51 gain for Bonanza, Bonan-za, from 51,758 to 77,963. Combined Com-bined Bonanza International Terminal Ter-minal there was a 51 gain for Bonanza, from 51,758 to 77,903. Combined Bonanza boardings out of the greater Los Angeles area, Including flights from Los Angeles, An-geles, Ontario, Riverside and Santa San-ta Ana, totaled 119,414. Most of the Increase appeared to be new customers for air transportation because other carriers were holding hold-ing their own. With or without possible new service awards Involving Las Vegas, Ve-gas, Salt Lake City, Tucson, Palm Springs, Albuquerque, El Paso. San Diego and Los Angeles officials offi-cials of the airline are preparing for 1963 with optimism. "We expect our passenger load factor to continue to match those of the larger trunk airlines." said Cal Crozier, Bonanza district sales manager in Cedar City. "People are finding low fares to their liking and are flying more often. Non-flyers and highway drivers are taking a second look," Crozier said. |