Reno’s airport continued to shake off a slowdown in U.S. air travel, posting its best month for passenger counts in two decades.

Reno-Tahoe International Airport served 489,000 passengers in August — its highest monthly tally since September 2005.

The August numbers put the Reno airport’s total passenger counts for the year at 3.3 million. Based on the numbers, Reno-Tahoe International Airport is on pace to reach an annual count of 4.9 million passengers by the end of 2025.

The Reno airport is hoping that new routes will help boost passenger counts toward the end of the year. The upcoming options include the return of Alaska Airlines’s San Diego route as a year-round flight by this October at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Frontier is also launching a new Reno-Phoenix route on Nov. 2

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