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'"~ <br /> <br />`~ <br />~~ <br /> <br />`.1 <br /> <br />Section 2. Executive summary <br />Survey sample <br />Airline booking information was collected for <br />calendar year 2004. A total of 70,869 airline <br />bookings were tabulated and included in the <br />Passenger Demand Analysis. The data used is <br />a sample of airline bookings NOT all bookings <br />within the .period. <br />Airport catchment area <br />Eugene Airport has an airport catchment area <br />that includes an estimated population of <br />615,668. It includes 87 zip codes in the state of <br />Oregon. <br />Departures and available seats <br />Four carriers served Eugene Airport in <br />December 2004 to nine nonstop destinations. <br />There were 207 weekly departures and 9,807 <br />available seats during the week of December 6, <br />2004. Of the 207 weekly departures, 55.1 <br />percent were made with jet aircraft. Portland <br />International Airport, the primary competing <br />airport, offered 1,696 weekly departures with <br />169,072 available seats. Of the Portland <br />departures, 83.2 percent of departures were <br />operated with jet aircraft. <br />Airport activity comparisons <br />From calendar year 1995 to calendar year 2004, <br />Eugene Airport's enplanements experienced <br />essentially no overall change. From 2000 to <br />2003 enplanements dropped by 20.3 percent. A <br />significant recovery occurred in 2004 with <br />enplanements increasing by 16.8 percent to <br />343,598. Portland International Airport <br />enplanements increased at a compounded <br />annual growth rate of 1.6 percent over the same <br />time period. For Portland International Airport <br />enplanements, calendar year 2004 represents <br />three quarters actual data and one quarter <br />estimated data. <br />F;UGE'NF., <br />AIRPORT <br />Section 2 <br />Executive summary <br />Airport use <br />Of the air travelers in the survey sample, 52.9 <br />percent originated their air travel at Eugene <br />Airport, while 47.1 percent used Portland <br />International Airport. When only domestic <br />destinations are considered, Eugene Airport <br />retention improved when compared to the 2004 <br />Passenger Demand Analysis increasing from <br />52.1 to 55.4 percent. However, Eugene Airport <br />retention dipped marginally compared to the <br />prior year when only international itineraries are <br />considered. Compared to the last survey, <br />overall Eugene Airport retention improved from <br />50.3 percent to 52.9 percent. <br />Destinations <br />Of the survey air travelers, 49.3 percent were <br />destined for one of the top 25 markets. Los <br />Angeles was the number one destination for the <br />survey sample. Eugene Airport retained 67.5 <br />percent of the survey travelers destined for Los <br />Angeles. Eugene Airport retained 58.6 percent <br />of travelers destined for Las Vegas (the number <br />two survey destination) and 83.1 percent of the <br />survey air travelers destined for San Francisco <br />(the number three survey destination). There <br />was no change in the rankings of the top five <br />survey destinations when compared to the prior <br />year survey. <br />Nonstop service <br />Eugene Airport offered nonstop service to nine <br />destinations: Denver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, <br />Medford, Portland, Phoenix, San Francisco, <br />Seattle, and Salt Lake City. With the exception <br />of Portland and Medford, all destinations were in <br />the survey's top 25 destinations. Portland <br />International Airport offered nonstop service to <br />48 destinations; 21 of those were in the Eugene <br />Airport catchment area top 25 destinations. <br />Page 3 <br />