Airline passenger traffic in August at Hector International Airport showed an increase as compared to the same month in 2007. In August 2008, the passenger enplanements were 28,729. This is an increase of 16.8% when compared to the August 2007 passenger enplanements of 24,597.

Total passenger count for the month was 57,511, which is up 16.3% over the same period last year.

This was the busiest August on record in terms of total and enplaned passengers.

Airline	City	Aircraft	Market Share
Northwest Airlines	Minneapolis	Airbus A319/320, DC9, E175, CRJ200	46%
United Express	Chicago & Denver	CRJ200	32%
Allegiant Air	Las Vegas & Phoenix	MD-80	9%
Frontier Airlines	Denver	Q400	13%

There were 543 air carrier departures in the month of August with a daily average of 1,855 passengers both arriving and departing.

Passengers	August 08	August 07	% Change	YTD2008	YTD2007	% Change
Total	57,511	49,435	16.3%	440,335	405,941	8.5%
Enplaned	28,729	24,597	16.8%	219,373	201,102	9.1%
Deplaned	28,782	24,838	15.9%	220,962	204,839	7.9%