December 2011 Summary

- December 2010 was the busiest December in the airport's history.
- 2011 was the 2nd busiest year on record.

Airline passenger traffic in December at Hector International Airport showed an increase as compared to the same month in 2010. In December 2011, the passenger enplanements were 31,505. This is an increase of 4.1% when compared to the December 2010 passenger enplanements of 30,274.

Total passenger count for the month was 60,609, which is up 4.9% over the same period last year.

There were 578 air carrier departures in the month of December with a daily average of 1,955 passengers both arriving and departing.

Airline passenger traffic in 2011 at Hector International Airport showed a slight decrease as compared to the same record breaking year in 2010. In 2011, the total passenger enplanements were 350,458. This is a decrease of -3.5% when compared to 2010 passenger enplanements of 363,138.

The passenger above numbers do not include 4,644 charter passengers that flew from Hector in 2011.

This was the second busiest year on record.

Total passenger count for the year was 699,549, which is down -3.5% over the record set in 2010 which had 724,941 total passengers.

There were 6,995 air carrier departures in 2011 with a daily average of 1,917 passengers both arriving and departing daily.