December 2008 – Monthly and Annual Statistics
ALL TIME ANNUAL PASSENGER RECORD SET IN 2008
– 2008 was the busiest year in the airport’s history.
– 2008 annual passenger enplanements, deplanements and total passengers broke the previous record set in 2006.
– December 2008 was the second busiest month ever for passenger enplanement, deplanements and total.
Airline passenger traffic in December at Hector International Airport showed an increase as compared to the same month in 2007. In December 2008, the passenger enplanements were 29,125. This is an increase of 17.3% when compared to the December 2007 passenger enplanements of 24,827.
Total passenger count for the month was 57,631, which is up 14.5% over the same period last year.
| Airline | City | Aircraft | Market Share |
| Northwest | Minneapolis | Airbus A319/320, DC9, E175, CRJ200 | 51% |
| United | Chicago & Denver | CRJ200 | 29% |
| Allegiant | Las Vegas, Phoenix, & Orlando | MD-80 | 12% |
| Frontier | Denver | Q400 | 7% |
There were 523 air carrier departures in the month of December with a daily average of 1,859 passengers both arriving and departing.
| Passengers | December 08 | December 07 | % Change | YTD2008 | YTD2007 | % Change |
| Total | 57,631 | 50,329 | 14.5% | 648,137 | 599,168 | 8.2% |
| Enplaned | 29,125 | 24,827 | 17.3% | 324,434 | 297,964 | 8.9% |
| Deplaned | 28,506 | 25,502 | 11.8% | 323,703 | 301,204 | 7.5% |