December 2015 – Monthly and Annual Statistics

Posted January 11, 2016

Airline passenger traffic in December at Hector International Airport showed a decrease as compared to the same month in 2014. In December 2015, the passenger enplanements were 34,049. This is a decrease of 10.3% when compared to the December 2014 passenger enplanements of 37,943.

Total passenger count for the month was 65,666, which is down 9.8% over the same period last year.

There were 598 air carrier departures in the month of December with a daily average of 2,291 passengers both arriving and departing.

Airline	City	Aircraft	Market Share	Enplanement Change From November 2014
Delta	Minneapolis & Atlanta	A320, A319, B739, B717, CRJ2/7/9	45%	-5%
United	Chicago & Denver	CRJ200 & EMB145	23%	1%
Allegiant	Las Vegas, Phoenix & Orlando	A319 & MD-80	16%	-13%
American	Chicago & Dallas	EMB145	16%	-9%

Passengers	Dec 2015	Dec 2014	% Change	YTD2015	YTD2014	% Change
Total	65,666	72,818	-9.8	858,982	894,426	– 4.0
Enplaned	34,049	37,943	-10.3	429,251	448,848	– 4.4
Deplaned	31,617	34,875	-9.3	429,731	445,578	– 3.6

Year End 2015 Summary

Airline passenger traffic in 2015 at Hector International Airport showed a decrease as compared to 2014. In 2015, the total passenger enplanements were 429,251. This is a decrease of 4.4% when compared to 2014 passenger enplanements of 448,848.

This was the second busiest year on record with a 83% overall load factor.

Total passenger count for the year was 858,982, which is down 4% over 2014 which had 894,429 total passengers.

		Market Share
Airline	City	2015	Change From 2014
Delta	Minneapolis, Atlanta & Salt Lake City	45%	-1%
United	Chicago & Denver	24%	-3%
Allegiant Air	Las Vegas, Phoenix, Orlando, Tampa & Los Angeles	17%	0%
American	Chicago & Dallas	13%	1%
Frontier	Denver (service ceased in 4/15)*

There were 7,151 air carrier departures in 2015 with a daily average of 2,413 passengers both arriving and departing daily.