North Dakota\u2019s eight commercial service airports posted a\ntotal of 89,865 airline passenger boardings during the recent month of\nJuly. This is a decline of 3,057 passengers or a 3.3% decrease in\npassenger numbers from July of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
North Dakota\u2019s airline passenger counts are currently\nfollowing a national trend where passenger growth over the last year has\nleveled to approximately 15% below 2019\u2019s pre-pandemic passenger\ncounts. This is mainly a result of the limited seat capacity and\nflight departures that are currently available to the traveling public as those\nlevels continue to remain below pre-pandemic levels. As shown in the\ntable below, an estimated 111,039 total airline seats were available for\npurchase within the state of North Dakota during the recent month of\nJuly. This is a 16% decrease or an estimated 20,858 less seats than what\nwas available in July of 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Passenger demand remains elevated as many of the flights departing or returning to North Dakota are full or near full with the average aircraft load factor at an estimated 80%.\u00c2\u00a0 As always, it is recommended to plan ahead and purchase tickets multiple weeks ahead of any planned trips to ensure that each traveler has an available seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
North Dakota Airline Seat Availability Comparison of 2022\nvs. 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00c2\u00a0Information has been retrieved from USDOT data provided via Airline Data Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAirlines continue to communicate hardships that prevent them from adding additional seat capacity into the system.\u201d stated Kyle Wanner, Executive Director of the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission. \u201cPassenger growth cannot occur when we don\u2019t have the additional flights or the seats to accommodate that growth.\u00c2\u00a0 We hope to see additional capacity being added back into the North Dakota system as the airline industry continues to re-prioritize the utilization of its fleet and works to improve its staffing issues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" North Dakota\u2019s eight commercial service airports posted a total of 89,865 airline passenger boardings during the recent month of July. This is a decline of 3,057 passengers or a 3.3% decrease in passenger numbers from July of 2021. North Dakota\u2019s airline passenger counts are currently following a national trend where passenger growth over the last […]<\/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-23226","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\/23226","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=23226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23227,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23226\/revisions\/23227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Month\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong> <\/td> \n Available\n Seats 2019<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n Available\n Seats 2022<\/strong>\n <\/td> Seats Comparison (2022 vs. 2019)<\/strong> <\/td> Percentage Change<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr> Jan <\/td> \n 119,866\n <\/td> \n 112,172\n <\/td> \n -7,694\n <\/td> \n -6%\n <\/td><\/tr> Feb <\/td> \n 116,581\n <\/td> \n 108,676\n <\/td> \n -7,905\n <\/td> \n -7%\n <\/td><\/tr> Mar <\/td> \n 139,858\n <\/td> \n 121,024\n <\/td> \n -18,834\n <\/td> \n -13%\n <\/td><\/tr> April <\/td> \n 132,257\n <\/td> \n 106,643\n <\/td> \n -25,614\n <\/td> \n -19%\n <\/td><\/tr> May <\/td> \n 124,501\n <\/td> \n 106,407\n <\/td> \n -18,094\n <\/td> \n -15%\n <\/td><\/tr> June <\/td> \n 128,530\n <\/td> \n 108,003\n <\/td> \n -20,527\n <\/td> \n -16%\n <\/td><\/tr> July <\/td> \n 131,897\n <\/td> \n 111,039\n <\/td> \n -20,858\n <\/td> \n -16%\n <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n