Phoenix: Post-vaccination travel rebound: Here’s how busy the Phoenix, Mesa airports were in June
Melissa Yeager | Arizona Republic Troy Warren for PhoenixNewsAndTalk.Com If airline passenger numbers are any indication, the pent-up demand for post-vaccination leisure travel has been unleashed. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport inched closer in June to a near return of its pre-pandemic traffic, while Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport saw its first increase in 2021 compared to 2019. Sky Harbor reported 3.6 million passengers in June 2021. That's down just 5% from June 2019, when it welcomed 3.8 million. Overall, passenger traffic at Sky Harbor is still down significantly in 2021 compared to 2019. So far this year, 16.8 million passengers have used the airport,…