Airline passenger traffic in December at Hector International Airport showed an increase when compared to the same month in 2015. In December 2016, the passenger enplanements were 34,481. This is an increase of 2.3% when compared to the December 2015 passenger enplanements of 34,049.

Total passenger count for the month was 67,842 which is also up 3.3% over the same period last year.

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Airline	City	Aircraft	Market Share	Enplanement Change from Dec 2015
Delta	Minneapolis & Atlanta	A319/320, B739, E175, CR2/9	46%	4%
United	Chicago & Denver	CR200 & EMB145	21%	-9%
Allegiant	Las Vegas, Orlando & Phoenix	A319/320, MD-80	16%	3%
American	Chicago & Dallas	CR900 & EMB145	17%	15%

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There were 532 air carrier departures with an average of 79 seats per flight in December and a daily average of 2,188 passengers both arriving and departing.

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	December			YTD
Passengers	2016	2015	% Chg	2016	2015	% Chg
Total	67,842	65,666	3.3%	789,182	858,982	-8.1%
Enplaned	34,841	34,049	2.3%	395,614	429,251	-7.8%
Deplaned	33,001	31,617	4.4%	393,568	429,731	-8.4%

 

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Year End 2016 Summary
Airline passenger traffic in 2016 at Hector International Airport showed a decrease as compared to 2015. In 2016, the total passenger enplanements were 395,614. This is a decrease of 7.8% when compared to 2015 passenger enplanements of 429,251.

The passenger traffic numbers do not include 6,452 charter passengers that also enplaned from the various charter operators in 2016.

This was the third busiest year on record with a 79% overall load factor.

Total passenger count for the year was 789,182, which is down 4% over 2015 which had 858,982 total passengers.

		Year End Market Share
Airline	City	2016	Change From 2015
Delta	Minneapolis & Atlanta	42%	-3%
United	Chicago & Denver	24%	0%
Allegiant Air	Las Vegas, Phoenix, Orlando, Tampa & Los Angeles	18%	1%
American	Chicago & Dallas	16%	3%

There were 6,924 air carrier departures in 2016 averaging 73 seats per flight with an average of 2,162 passengers both arriving and departing daily.