Airline passenger traffic in September at Hector International Airport showed an increase as compared to the same month in 2007. In September 2008, the passenger enplanements were 24,902. This is an increase of 7.4% when compared to the September 2007 passenger enplanements of 23,176.

Total passenger count for the month was 49,689, which is up 7.7% over the same period last year.

This was the busiest September on record in terms of enplaned passengers. This was the busiest 3rd Quarter on record with 171,337 total passengers.

Airline	City	Aircraft	Market Share
Northwest Airlines	Minneapolis	Airbus A319/320, DC9, E175, CRJ200/900	47%
United Express	Chicago & Denver	CRJ200	34%
Allegiant Air	Las Vegas & Phoenix	MD-80	10%
Frontier Airlines	Denver	Q400	9%

There were 515 air carrier departures in the month of September with a daily average of 1,656 passengers both arriving and departing.

Passengers	September 08	September 07	% Change	YTD2008	YTD2007	% Change
Total	49,689	46,119	7.7%	490,024	452,060	8.4%
Enplaned	24,902	23,176	7.4%	244,275	224,278	8.9%
Deplaned	24,787	22,943	8.0%	245,749	227,782	7.9%