{"id":20374,"date":"2021-12-18T15:56:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=20374"},"modified":"2021-12-18T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:56:04","slug":"holiday-travel-provides-boost-to-aviation-demand-in-north-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/north-dakota\/holiday-travel-provides-boost-to-aviation-demand-in-north-dakota\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Travel provides Boost to Aviation Demand in North Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>North Dakota\u2019s eight commercial service airports posted\n83,429 airline passenger boardings during the recent month of November.&nbsp; This amounts to a 95% increase from November\n2020 and a 12.5% decrease from the November 2019 pre-pandemic airline boarding\ncounts. Additional travel demand seen during the Thanksgiving weekend was\nreminiscent of pre-pandemic levels in North Dakota and throughout the rest of\nthe country. The mild winter weather has also helped to ensure that airline\nflights have been able to proceed with minimal disruptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of the commercial service airports throughout North\nDakota have shown an incredible recovery in passenger demand throughout 2021\nand some have even eclipsed pre-pandemic demand.&nbsp; The Jamestown and Devils Lake airports have\nboth experienced a full recovery and North Dakota\u2019s largest commercial service\nairport in Fargo\u2019s Hector International airport just set its best November on\nrecord with 37,911 passenger enplanements. This is .2% higher than the\npreviously best November on record for the airport that was set in 2019 and\nhelps to showcase how close North Dakota is to coming to achieve a full\nrecovery in the airline passenger market.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kyles-Picture.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16233\" width=\"124\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kyles-Picture.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kyles-Picture-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 124px) 100vw, 124px\" \/><figcaption><em>Kyle Wanner<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s wonderful to once again see certain airports\nexperience pre-pandemic levels of passengers as the traveling public continues\nto look to aviation as a safe and comfortable way to bring friends and family\ntogether.\u201d&nbsp; stated Kyle Wanner, Executive\nDirector of the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission. \u201cThis year, our airports\nand airlines are working particularly hard to accommodate passengers during\nthis busy holiday travel season.&nbsp; We hope\nto end the year on a high note that provides for positive travel experiences\nand a continuation of the recovery in passenger demand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Dakota\u2019s eight commercial service airports posted 83,429 airline passenger boardings during the recent month of November.&nbsp; This amounts to a 95% increase from November 2020 and a 12.5% decrease from the November 2019 pre-pandemic airline boarding counts. Additional travel demand seen during the Thanksgiving weekend was reminiscent of pre-pandemic levels in North Dakota and [&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-20374","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\/20374","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=20374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20375,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20374\/revisions\/20375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}