Traffic at Orange County's John Wayne Airport dropped in November to 17.0 percent fewer passengers than in November 2007 and 18.4 percent fewer than in November 2006 as the airport's slide continues.

2008 is shaping up as John Wayne Airport's worst year since 2003. The El Toro Info Site projects passenger volume for the calendar year to drop below 9 million - a million fewer travelers than the airport served in 2007.

This translates into millions of dollars of lost revenue.

The El Toro Info Site's analysis attributes only a part of the loss to the weak economy and bankruptcy of Aloha Airlines. JWA'a slide is steeper than at other SoCal airports. Actions by the Orange County Board of Supervisors, to cut the number of seats allocated to airlines this year by more than 300,000 and to reject airline requests to add service for hundreds of thousands of passengers, are seen as contributing factors.