Allegiant jet at gate. Officials hope
Allegiant’s twice weekly
Myrtle Beach
fights, added a month ago, will help.
NEW WINDSOR – Passenger levels at Stewart Airport during the first half of the year were down 6.6 percent from 2015 levels, but airport officials are hoping that new Myrtle Beach flights aboard Allegiant Air will boost the numbers. Those flights will continue through September. The airline also provides year-round flights to Florida.
Stewart Business Development Director Michael Torelli said all four airlines at Stewart averaged load factors of 78 percent.
“We did see, starting on June 16, additional flights from Allegiant, twice a week; those are reflective of about four of those flights in that June timeframe,” Torelli said. “They are doing very well with over a 90 percent load factor.”
Roughly some 7,000 fewer passengers used Stewart so far this year. In the first six months of last year, 137,190 people flew at Stewart compared to 129,818 this year.
