Casper airport sees 10-year high for November flights

CASPER (WNE) — Casper/Natrona County International Airport hit a 10-year high for November traffic, in line with a busy holiday season nationwide.

The airport saw 8,339 flights depart last month, the highest number since 2015, airport spokeswoman Katie Reed said.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced before Thanksgiving it was anticipating the busiest holiday travel period in 15 years, with more than 52,000 flights on the Tuesday before the holiday.

This year has been busier on average than 2024, with the airport on track to surpass 100,000 flights, but Reed declined to share the exact number in lieu of the airport’s contest for guessing the total number of flights from the airport in 2025.

Despite the government shutdown during October and part of November, the airport maintained an increase in flights for each month over last year, Reed said.

“We were really lucky in Casper, the shutdown really didn’t impact travel beyond a couple of cancelled flights via the FAA,” Reed said.

And Reed noted the airport is hoping its flight traffic will be up this year, too, after a dip in flights last December from 2023.

This story was published on Dec. 6, 2025.