December 2009 - Monthly and Annual Statistics

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ALL TIME ANNUAL PASSENGER RECORD SET IN 2009

- 2009 was the busiest year in the airport's history.
- 2009 annual passenger enplanements, deplanements and total passengers broke the previous record set in 2008.
- 6,592 total air carrier departures in 2009 or 18 average daily.

Airline passenger traffic in December at Hector International Airport showed an increase as compared to the same month in 2008. In December 2009, the passenger enplanements were 30,351. This is an increase of 7.6% when compared to the December 2008 passenger enplanements of 29,125.

Total passenger count for the month was 59,572, which is up 3.4% over the same period last year.

Airline	City	Aircraft	Market Share
Northwest Airlines/Delta Airlines	Minneapolis & Salt Lake City	DC9, E175, CRJ 200/900	47%
United Express	Chicago & Denver	CRJ200/700	24%
Allegiant Air	Las Vegas, Phoenix, Orlando & Los Angeles	MD-80	19%
Frontier Airlines	Denver	Q400	10%

There were 537 air carrier departures in the month of December with a daily average of 1,922 passengers both arriving and departing.

Passengers	December 10	December 09	% Change	YTD2009	YTD2008	% Change
Total	59,572	57,631	3.4%	697,810	648,137	7.7%
Enplaned	30,351	29,125	4.2%	348,951	324,434	7.6%
Deplaned	29,221	28,506	2.5%	348,859	323,703	7.8%