"Seven Wyoming airports gain, three lose outgoing passengers"

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Seven airports gain, three lose outgoing passengers
The Associated Press


SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) - The number of passengers boarding commercial planes at
Wyoming airports fell in September compared to the same month last year,
according the Wyoming Transportation Department.

But seven airports posted higher figures than a year earlier.

The largest percentage increase in boardings in September occurred at
Yellowstone Regional Airport in Cody, where 3,449 people boarded planes in
September. That was up 45 percent from September 2003.

Rock Springs-Sweetwater County Airport posted a 44-percent increase, with
1,073 boardings. In Gillette, 1,301 people flew out of Gillette-Campbell
County Airport, up 21.6 percent.

Boardings were also up in Cheyenne, which recorded an 8-percent increase to
1,352, and in Laramie, where the 705 people who flew out last month topped
the September 2003 figure by 7 percent.

In Riverton, enplanements were up 6 percent to 1,089. At Sheridan County
Airport, 1,059 people boarded planes in September, up 4.9 percent from
September 2003.

Boardings were down at three airports, offsetting the increases at airports
elsewhere in the state.

Jackson's figure last month was 20,970, down 6.6 percent from a year
earlier. At Natrona County International Airport, 5,828 people flew out in
September, down 8 percent.

At the state's least-busy commercial airport, outside Worland, 157 took
commercial flights out in September, down 262 from September 2003.

A total of 37,034 people took commercial flights out of Wyoming's 10
commercial airports last month, down 0.5 percent from September 2003, when
37,233 people flew commercially out of Wyoming.

But boardings over the first nine months of 2004 are up compared to the same
period last year. Through September, 311,839 people had flown out of Wyoming
airports, up 1.9 percent from the same period in 2003.


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