{"id":23783,"date":"2022-10-24T02:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T02:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=23783"},"modified":"2022-10-24T02:23:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T02:23:18","slug":"air-travel-demand-remains-strong-throughout-north-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/north-dakota\/air-travel-demand-remains-strong-throughout-north-dakota\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Air Travel Demand Remains Strong Throughout North Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>North Dakota\u2019s eight commercial service airports posted a\ntotal of 84,925 airline passenger boardings during the month of September 2022.\nThis is a 13% increase from the 74,943 boardings that the state experienced\nlast year in September 2021.&nbsp; It is also\nonly 5% below September 2019\u2019s pre-pandemic passenger counts of 89,925.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Signs that air travel demand remains strong in North Dakota\nis prevalent throughout the data.&nbsp;\nHighlights include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Five of the commercial service airports are\nshowing higher passenger volumes in this month than were reported during the\nlast pre-pandemic September that occurred in 2019. <\/li><li>North Dakota\u2019s largest airport facility &#8211; The\nHector International Airport in Fargo, had its best September on record with a\ntotal of 35,360 passengers. &nbsp;This is a\n3.6% increase or an additional 1,225 passengers than its previous best month of\nSeptember which was set in 2019.<\/li><li>The state\u2019s airline passenger volume is\ncurrently only 5% below pre-pandemic levels which is also similar to the\nrecovery in demand seen in air travel throughout the United States.&nbsp; Since March of 2020, this is the closest that\nNorth Dakota has been to reaching pre-pandemic passenger counts.<\/li><li>A majority of the North Dakota airports continue\nto report average airline load factors above 80% which is another indicator\nthat flights are full and the demand for air travel is healthy.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNorth Dakota\u2019s air service continues to show an elevated\nlevel of demand for the seats that are available,\u201d stated Kyle Wanner,\nExecutive Director for the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission. \u201cThe message\ncontinues to be the same in that our communities would like to see additional\nflights and purchasable seats become available for the flying public.&nbsp; As the airlines continue to make decisions on\nwhere to assign their available resources; we hope that the positive passenger\ndemand seen in North Dakota will help to justify and attract additional flight\nand seat allocations to our markets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Dakota\u2019s eight commercial service airports posted a total of 84,925 airline passenger boardings during the month of September 2022. This is a 13% increase from the 74,943 boardings that the state experienced last year in September 2021.&nbsp; It is also only 5% below September 2019\u2019s pre-pandemic passenger counts of 89,925. Signs that air travel [&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":[143,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-north-dakota"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783","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=23783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23784,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783\/revisions\/23784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}