North Dakota\u2019s commercial service airports finished calendar\nyear 2022 with a statewide total of 1,028,159 airline passenger boardings. This is a growth of 141,350 passengers and a\n16% overall increase from calendar year 2021. \nAll eight commercial service airports were able to provide services to\nmore passengers in 2022 than they did in the previous calendar year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2022, the airports also tallied 1,023,816 passenger\ndeplanements for a grand total of 2,051,975 passengers (enplanements and\ndeplanements) that traveled through the commercial service terminal buildings\nof North Dakota over the past year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Significant winter storm events that resulted in an increase\nin canceled flights throughout North Dakota in both November and December also\nimpacted the numbers. Despite these\nimpacts, the state was still able to successfully surpass 1 million passenger\nboardings for the year. This is an exciting milestone that has not occurred\nsince the pre-pandemic year of 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Airline boardings have been adversely affected since the\nbeginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when the industry experienced a significant\ndecline in passenger numbers beginning in March of 2020. That year, airline passenger demand dropped\nby over 50% and North Dakota recorded an annual total of 572,093 passenger\nboardings. Since that time, airline\npassenger demand has seen a remarkable recovery and the current data reveals\nthat air travel demand remains strong in North Dakota. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The growth in passenger demand bolsters the justification\nfor airlines to look to add more flights, destinations, and seat capacity to\nNorth Dakota\u2019s airports. Airlines,\nhowever; continue to cite challenges in their ability to upscale as they\ncontinue to grapple with a shortage of pilots and other aviation related\njobs. The need for a growing aviation\nworkforce will continue to create opportunities for our youth to consider a\ncareer in the aviation sector. Pilots,\naircraft mechanics, and unmanned aircraft operators are just a few of the\nexciting career options that are projected to continue to be in high\ndemand. <\/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 seven non-stop destinations and an additional\nthree seasonal non-stop options. All eight of the commercial service airports\nin North Dakota also continue to provide their communities with reliable jet\nservice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis past year was one of significant challenges for the\naviation industry as it worked to accommodate a large recovery in passenger demand\nwhile simultaneously experiencing significant workforce 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 pre-pandemic\nlevels. The success of this recovery\nshowcases the resiliency of our state as well as the importance and heightened\nstandard of living that air service opportunities provide to our citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
North Dakota\u2019s commercial service airports finished calendar year 2022 with a statewide total of 1,028,159 airline passenger boardings. This is a growth of 141,350 passengers and a 16% overall increase from calendar year 2021. All eight commercial service airports were able to provide services to more passengers in 2022 than they did in the previous […]<\/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-24573","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\/24573","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=24573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24574,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24573\/revisions\/24574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}