December 2008 - Monthly and Annual Statistics

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ALL TIME ANNUAL PASSENGER RECORD SET IN 2008

- 2008 was the busiest year in the airport's history.
- 2008 annual passenger enplanements, deplanements and total passengers broke the previous record set in 2006.
- December 2008 was the second busiest month ever for passenger enplanement, deplanements and total.

Airline passenger traffic in December at Hector International Airport showed an increase as compared to the same month in 2007. In December 2008, the passenger enplanements were 29,125. This is an increase of 17.3% when compared to the December 2007 passenger enplanements of 24,827.

Total passenger count for the month was 57,631, which is up 14.5% over the same period last year.

Airline	City	Aircraft	Market Share
Northwest Airlines	Minneapolis	Airbus A319/320, DC9, E175, CRJ200	51%
United Express	Chicago & Denver	CRJ200	29%
Allegiant Air	Las Vegas, Phoenix, & Orlando	MD-80	12%
Frontier Airlines	Denver	Q400	7%

There were 523 air carrier departures in the month of December with a daily average of 1,859 passengers both arriving and departing.

Passengers	December 08	December 07	% Change	YTD2008	YTD2007	% Change
Total	57,631	50,329	14.5%	648,137	599,168	8.2%
Enplaned	29,125	24,827	17.3%	324,434	297,964	8.9%
Deplaned	28,506	25,502	11.8%	323,703	301,204	7.5%