{"id":16656,"date":"2020-10-19T12:14:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T12:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=16656"},"modified":"2020-10-19T12:14:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T12:14:33","slug":"north-dakota-airline-passenger-retention-rises-to-44-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/north-dakota\/north-dakota-airline-passenger-retention-rises-to-44-in-september\/%20","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota Airline Passenger Retention Rises to 44% in September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>North Dakota\u2019s eight commercial service airports posted a\ntotal of 39,451 passenger boardings during the month of September. This amounts\nto a 44% retention rate of the passengers that the state experienced during the\nsame month last year and is the highest monthly retention rate that the North\nDakota has experienced since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.&nbsp; However, this is also the first month since\nApril that the state has experienced a lower passenger volume than the previous\nmonth as there were 4,000 fewer passengers in September than in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeptember is seasonally one of our slowest months for air\ntravel in the state of North Dakota and so as expected, we experienced a small\ndip in passenger volume from August\u201d stated Kyle Wanner, Executive Director of\nthe North Dakota Aeronautics Commission. \u201cOur commercial service airports have\nnow been successfully operating during the COVID-19 pandemic for seven months\nand during that time they have worked hard to ensure that a safe environment\nexists for the traveling public. Since air transportation is also one of the\nsafest modes of transportation, it is critical that it continues to remain a\nviable option for our travelers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Dakota\u2019s eight commercial service airports posted a total of 39,451 passenger boardings during the month of September. This amounts to a 44% retention rate of the passengers that the state experienced during the same month last year and is the highest monthly retention rate that the North Dakota has experienced since the beginning of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-dakota"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16657,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16656\/revisions\/16657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}