More people than ever before flew out of Iowa’s commercial airports in 2025. The Iowa Department of Transportation’s Stuart Anderson says December numbers resumed the upward trend after a drop in November. “We ended the year up four-point-eight percent (4.8%) over calendar year 2024. So for the first time ever more than five million passengers flew out of Iowa’s eight commercial service airports,” he says. Anderson says the drop in November travel was due in part to the government shutdown. Back on the ground, December highway travel was down, but overall 2025 travel was up slightly.
