DENVER (AP) — Passenger traffic at Denver International Airport declined by less than 1 percentage point in January compared with the same month a year ago.

Airport officials said Thursday that about 3.9 million people passed through the facility in January 2012, down about 23,000 or 0.6 percent from a year earlier.

The airport set a record for total passenger traffic in 2011, nearly 53 million.

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