Gillette airport ends 2023 on strong note

GILLETTE (WNE) — The Northeast Wyoming Regional Airport ended 2023 on a high note with its busiest month in nearly a year and a half.
 
December had 5,185 passengers, making it the strongest month the airport has had in terms of passenger traffic since July 2021. It also was the first time the airport crossed the 5,000-passenger mark since August 2021.
 
November was the second strongest month of the year, with 4,984 passengers. That month, the airport went back to having two daily roundtrip flights to Denver.
 
In total, 54,332 passengers flew into or out of the airport in 2023, a 16% increase from 2022. Each month in 2023 had more passengers than its 2022 counterpart.
 
Monthly traffic didn’t dip below 4,000 passengers once this year. In 2022, six months failed to bring in 4,000 passengers.
 
The airport averaged 4,528 passengers per month, more than 600 passengers more than the 2022 average.
 
Overall, 2023 was the busiest year for the airport since the COVID-19 pandemic, but numbers haven’t yet reached pre-pandemic levels. It’s about 5,000 passengers behind 2019, when about 59,000 passengers came through the airport.
 
This story was published on January 9, 2024.