Montrose Regional Airport (MTJ) Statistics

Montrose Regional Airport (MTJ) serves Colorado’s Western Slope and connects Montrose with major United States hub airports. The airport supports year-round travel, with demand shaped by winter ski trips and summer mountain tourism.

MTJ recorded 264,973 passenger boardings in 2024, its highest level in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) enplanement series.

• From 2014 to 2018, official enplanements rose from 90,630 to 133,924.
• Pre-pandemic traffic reached 158,198 enplanements in 2019.
• Pandemic-year traffic fell to 100,887 enplanements in 2020, down 36.2% from 2019.
• The rebound was sharp in 2021, when enplanements climbed 86.7% to 188,355.
• Volumes continued rising through 2022, 2023, and 2024, reaching 233,094, 244,266, and 264,973 enplanements.

Note: FAA publishes passenger boardings, also called enplanements, which count departing passengers only. Percentage changes and shares in this article are calculated from raw source values; table values are standardized to thousands or US$ millions and rounded to 2 decimal places for readability unless otherwise noted.

United led MTJ’s carrier market in 2025, with about 196 thousand passengers and a 38.95% share.

• Southwest Airlines ranked second with 111 thousand passengers, or 22.07% of the market.
• American Airlines followed with 86.9 thousand passengers and a 17.3% share.
• Regional operators SkyWest Airlines and Envoy Air accounted for another 63.4 thousand passengers combined.
• The top three carriers together represented 78.32% of MTJ’s reported passenger market.
• Other carriers handled 45.49 thousand passengers, or 9.06% of the total.

Note: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) carrier data reports passenger market share, not flight counts. Regional operating carriers may appear separately from the mainline brands passengers see on tickets.

March was MTJ’s busiest month in 2025, with 68.54 thousand total passengers.

• Winter and early-spring ski travel drove the strongest months, with February at 59.49 thousand passengers and January at 54.27 thousand.
• July was the busiest summer month, with 49.59 thousand passengers, followed by August at 44.54 thousand.
• The December holiday period added another winter peak, with 42.98 thousand passengers.
• Shoulder-season demand was lowest in April, May, and November, each below 25 thousand passengers.
• The winter-heavy months of January, February, March, and December together handled 225.28 thousand passengers, or 44.9% of annual traffic.

Note: Calculated total passengers equal BTS T-100 Market origin passengers plus destination passengers for each month.

MTJ’s major-carrier flights were 75% on time for arrivals and 74% on time for departures in the 2026* reporting period.

• The airport’s strongest post-2021 year was 2024, when both departures and arrivals were 79% on time.
• Departure on-time performance moved from 80% in 2021 to 75% in 2025, then 74% in the latest reporting period.
• Arrival on-time performance stayed slightly stronger, holding at 77% in 2025 before moving to 75% in the latest period.
• Average delay among delayed flights reached 111.56 minutes for departures and 69 minutes for arrivals in the latest period.
• Cancellations improved steadily, falling from 3.82% in 2021 to 0.72% in the latest reporting period.

MTJ ranked 182nd among United States commercial-service airports by 2024 FAA passenger boardings.

• The FAA listed MTJ as a primary non-hub commercial-service airport in the 2024 table.
• MTJ recorded 264,973 passenger boardings in 2024, up 8.5% from 244,266 in 2023.
• Within Colorado, MTJ ranked behind Denver International, Colorado Springs, Aspen/Pitkin County, Eagle County, and Grand Junction by 2024 passenger boardings.
• MTJ ranked slightly ahead of Durango-La Plata County, which recorded 250,640 passenger boardings in 2024.
• National ranking should be read as an FAA enplanement ranking, not a global passenger-traffic ranking.

Note: FAA commercial-service rankings are based on passenger boardings, also called enplanements, not total passengers.