It will be funding on top of the airport's annual $1 million federal allocation to provide services. The Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act will bring the Joplin airport quite a bit of money, officials said. But understanding where we are going to be a year from now is extremely difficult." Their service has been very good, very stable, and we appreciate everything they've done for us. "We have a very good partner with United. "We hope we can continue to ride through this," he said. They are trying to make it as profitable as possible and keep as many folks working as they can." "They don't act the same, they don't react the same. "Over 30 years I've been dealing with the industry, and I've never seen the industry like it is now," Stockam said. In August, the passenger count went up to 5,614 and climbed to 6,142 in September. 2 for construction work on the intersection of two runways. July dipped to 5,021 total passengers, but Stockam said that was because the airfield at the airport was closed from July 23 through Aug. "Leisure travel is still a big component of what we're doing," and travel holidays coming up may give passenger counts another boost, Stockam said. The industry is affected by a pilot shortage as well as COVID-19 restrictions. It's hard to tell what will happen, but Stockam said it is important to keep the airline service going as much as possible. Travel has depressed suddenly in just five days as new government restrictions have been imposed. The travel outlook has changed suddenly with the discovery of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. Of that number, 2,643 went to Houston, 2,279 to Denver and 2,118 to Chicago. Passenger counts to the three hub airports were highest that first month of United Airlines service, with 7,040 passengers.
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When the pandemic allows full service to return to the industry, Stockam said that could mean even larger passenger counts because of the component of leisure travel that has come to local air service.
Recently, travel to Houston has dropped, causing United to suspend many of those flights. The hubs are Houston, Denver and Chicago, and for these first months of service, traffic to Denver has slightly outpaced Chicago. United Express, a subsidiary of United Airlines, has offered service from Joplin to three hubs rather than one or two as there have been in recent years. But we've been able to tap into that market, and we've done very, very well, which is exciting to me." Maybe it was because of the availability of those flights. "Why we were not tapping into it at that time, I really have no idea. "It's really interesting to know that there was a sector of the market that we were not tapping into," he said.
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