Minot International Airport Director Rick Feltner has announced his retirement, effective June 3.
“Rick has been a great asset to the City of Minot as an organization and especially to the International Airport,” said City Manager Harold Stewart. “We certainly wish him well, but we will miss his leadership and experience moving forward.”
Feltner has been Minot’s airport director since May 2016. A native of southern Indiana, Feltner was the deputy executive director of Terminal One at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Jamaica, N.Y., prior to working in Minot. He was also previously corporate director of airport services of Delta Air Lines in Minneapolis.”
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North Dakota airline passenger boardings (2017-2020). Source: N.D. Aeronautics Commission.
North Dakota’s eight commercial service airports finished 2020 with fewer than half the number of passengers who traveled by air in 2019, according to information released by the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission.
There were 572,093 airline passenger boardings statewide last year – a decrease of 619,476 passengers or 52%. It is the lowest passenger count that the state has recorded since calendar year 2003, according to the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission.
Minot ended 2020 with 84,601 passenger boardings at Minot International Airport, down 49% from 2019. The airport saw 165,988 boardings in 2019 and 222,144 boardings at its peak in 2014. December 2020 brought 8,039 boardings, far short of the 15,718 in 2019 and peak of 20,828 in December 2013.