Eisenhower Airport sees modest increase in October passengers

Wichita Eisenhower National Airport saw a small gain in the number of people flying to and from it in October, according to a report published to the airport’s website Tuesday.

The Wichita Airport Authority’s Aviation Activity Report said 139,492 passengers used the airport in October, a 1.65 percent gain from October 2014’s count of 137,233 passengers.

For the first 10 months of the year, 1.30 million passengers used Eisenhower, compared with 1.27 million passengers in the same period in 2014. The change represented a 2.5 percent increase.

The report also said there were 35 daily departures at the airport in October 2015, compared with 37 in the same month a year ago.

This story was originally published December 1, 2015 at 2:56 PM with the headline "Eisenhower Airport sees modest increase in October passengers."