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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Des Moines Airport sets its second straight record for passenger numbers

Des Moines Airport sets its second straight record for passenger numbers

The number of people flying out of the state’s busiest airport went up again last year after cracking the three-million passenger mark for the first time in 2023.

Airport spokesperson Sarah Hoodjer says they welcomed 3,176,952 passengers, a 2.6% increase from last year. Hoodjer those record numbers came despite the January blizzard that canceled more than 100 flights. “We actually had to close the airport, and that hasn’t we don’t get to do that very often, which we don’t like to do, but we had that disruption, and then also that crowd strike took out quite a few flights for a couple of days as well, and flights that were incoming as well,” she says. “So with those two kind of huge disruptions, it’s amazing that we still were able to have a record-breaking year.”

She says the increase in passengers coincides with an increase in stops. “Right now, we offer flights to 33 nonstop, so that is also a record for us. So this is the first time that we’ve been able to offer that many nonstop flights. We add Boston, Jacksonville, and then Philadelphia; all three of those will be added this summer,” she says. Hoodjer says they only have a breakdown through the first quarter of last year, and the top destination out of Des Moines was Arizona.

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