Airline passenger numbers way up for January 2023 in North Dakota

Photo by: WDAY Radio Staff
Photo by: WDAY Radio Staff

(Bismarck, ND) -- Airline passenger boardings are up at North Dakota's eight commercial airports.

The North Dakota Aeronautics Commission says just under 91-thousand-passengers boarded planes in January.

That is a 24-percent increase over January of last year.

It's also about one-and-a-half-percent more than the January 2019 pre-pandemic passenger count.