North Dakota\u2019s eight commercial service airports finished\ncalendar year 2020 with a statewide total of 572,093 airline passenger\nboardings. This is a decrease of 619,476\npassengers or an 52% decrease from 2019 and is the lowest passenger count that\nthe state has recorded since calendar year 2003. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
North Dakota passenger numbers have been adversely affected\nsince the beginning of the pandemic when the state experienced an immediate 95%\npercent decline in passenger numbers during the month of April. Since that time, the state has been trending\nin a positive direction and has recovered to approximately 50% of pre-pandemic\nlevels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The recent growth in demand has encouraged airlines to begin\nslowly adding back flights and seat capacity to our airports. Today, North Dakota still has a high level of\nair service availability based upon historical standards as the state\u2019s\nairports still provide the public with 10 non-stop destinations (three are\nseasonal). All eight of the commercial service airports in North Dakota also\ncontinue to provide their communities with reliable jet service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur airports rose to the challenge that this past year\nbrought for the aviation industry which resulted in significant negative\nimpacts due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d \nstated Kyle Wanner, Executive Director of the North Dakota Aeronautics\nCommission. \u201cOur airports never closed\nand they quickly worked to implement recommended mitigations to help ensure\nthat a safe environment exists for those who need to travel. They were also\nable to accommodate emergency related personnel and products to efficiently\nenter and depart our state. As we look\nforward to 2021, I remain optimistic that airline passenger numbers will\ncontinue their current positive trend towards recovery.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
North Dakota\u2019s eight commercial service airports finished calendar year 2020 with a statewide total of 572,093 airline passenger boardings. This is a decrease of 619,476 passengers or an 52% decrease from 2019 and is the lowest passenger count that the state has recorded since calendar year 2003. North Dakota passenger numbers have been adversely affected […]<\/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-17414","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\/17414","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=17414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17415,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17414\/revisions\/17415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}