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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 p...

Submiitted Graphic 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 w...