December 2010 – Monthly and Annual Statistics

ALL TIME ANNUAL PASSENGER RECORD SET IN 2010

– 2010 was the busiest year in the airport’s history.
– 2010 annual passenger enplanements, deplanements and total passengers broke the previous record set in 2009.
– 7,033 total air carrier departures in 2010 or 17 average daily.

Airline passenger traffic in December at Hector International Airport showed a slight decrease as compared to the same month in 2009. In December 2010, the passenger enplanements were 30,274. This is a decrease of -0.3% when compared to the December 2010 passenger enplanements of 30,351. This was the second busiest December on record.

The year’s enplanements finished flat after a summer of decreases and a first half of increases.

December was cut short by two back to back blizzards which cancelled almost two days of flights during a busy holiday weekend. Passenger enplanements counting just the legacy carriers (Delta, United and American) posted a 3.1% increase over the previous record year.  Allegiant Air addition to the airport flight schedule added the remaining increase to 4.1%.

Total passenger count for the month was 57,789, which is down -3.0% over the same period last year.

There were 578 air carrier departures in the month of December with a daily average of 1,864 passengers both arriving and departing.