North Dakota\u2019s commercial service airports finished calendar\nyear 2021 with a statewide total of 886,809 airline passenger boardings. This is an increase of 314,716 passengers or\na 55% increase from 2020. All eight\ncommercial service airports were able to provide services to more passengers in\n2021 than they did in the previous calendar year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2021, the airports also tallied 887,914 passenger\ndeplanements for a grand total of 1,774,723 passengers (enplanements and\ndeplanements) that traveled through the commercial service terminal buildings\nof North Dakota over the past year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Airline boardings have been adversely affected since the\nbeginning of the pandemic when the state experienced an immediate 95% percent\ndecline in passenger numbers during the month of April in 2020. Since that time, the state has been\ncontinually trending in a positive direction and in recent months, the recovery\nin passenger demand has grown to an average of 17% below 2019\u2019s pre-pandemic\nlevels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The recent growth in demand throughout 2021 has also\nencouraged airlines to begin looking to add more flights, destinations, and\nseat capacity to airports, though challenges with workforce shortages have\nlimited their up-scaling ability. Demand\nfor aviation workers has and will continue to create opportunities and provides\nencouragement for our youth to consider a career in the aviation sector. Pilots, aircraft mechanics, and unmanned\naircraft operators are just a few of the exciting career options that are\nprojected to continue to be in high demand in the near future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite all challenges, North Dakota continues to provide\nthe public with a high level of air service availability as the state\u2019s\nairports provide the public with ten non-stop destination options (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
\u201cThe past year was one of significant challenges for the\naviation industry as it worked to accommodate a large recovery in passenger\ndemand while pro-actively mitigating risks associated with the pandemic and\nworkforce shortages.\u201d stated Kyle\nWanner, Executive Director of the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission. \u201cAmongst these challenges, North Dakota\u2019s\nairline passenger demand is within reach of a full recovery to 2019\u2019s\npre-pandemic levels. The success of the\nongoing recovery showcases the resiliency of our state as well as the\nimportance that aviation transportation provides to all of our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
North Dakota\u2019s commercial service airports finished calendar year 2021 with a statewide total of 886,809 airline passenger boardings. This is an increase of 314,716 passengers or a 55% increase from 2020. All eight commercial service airports were able to provide services to more passengers in 2021 than they did in the previous calendar year. In […]<\/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-20709","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\/20709","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=20709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20710,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709\/revisions\/20710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}