the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Newark NJ, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey today announced that its commercial airports concluded the summer travel season on a sizzling pace, capped by record travel around the Labor Day holiday. From January through August, airport passenger volumes outpaced the same period of 2023, which had been the busiest year ever for the region’s airports. The Port of New York and New Jersey surpassed 700,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) for the sixth consecutive month while outpacing activity from 2023 and pre-pandemic 2019. The agency’s vehicular crossings continued to show strong performance, holding steady at pre-pandemic 2019 levels. Ridership on the PATH commuter rail system maintained ridership at two-thirds of pre-pandemic 2019 levels.
