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Montana's busiest airports on Tuesday praised funding included by Sen. Jon Tester in a bill to further fund the Federal Aviation Administration.

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced on Wednesday new rules that will put refunds quickly back into air travelers’ pockets for canceled or delayed flights.

The airport, which is constructing the second and third phase of its new passenger terminal, logged record passenger numbers last year. This year, it expects to surge past those figures to secure another record season.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday grounded all planes operated by Alaska Airlines, a move that delayed at least one flight in Missoula.

numbers in, airport director Brian Ellestad said the state's second busiest airport surpassed its 2019 record by 1% with nearly 913,200 passengers.

During the pandemic, a number of carriers cut service and Missoula lost a number of routes. Now, as travel out of Missoula grows to record numbers, the flights are coming back and carriers are doing so on larger airplanes.

With a new airline locked into nonstop flights to Minneapolis next summer, Missoula Montana Airport is looking beyond its existing routes in hopes of expanding service.

Sun Country Airlines will begin service in Missoula next summer with nonstop flights to Minneapolis, airport officials said Tuesday.

The airport on Tuesday said passenger counts for August were up 12.7% over last year and up more than 6% over the same month in 2019, which was a record setting year for the airport.

Martin Kidston (Missoula Current) The Missoula Montana Airport saw a record number of passengers arrive or depart from the Garden City in July, representing a 25% increase in passenger growth over the same period last year.