A spokesman for the Iowa Department of Transportation says air travel continues to outpace last year, while traffic on state highways remains relatively flat.

Stuart Anderson told the Iowa Transportation Commission that October was another strong month for air travel.

“October was another big month and another little bump up compared to last month, but still pretty consistently record numbers compared to past years,” Anderson says.

He says it’s not yet clear how the recent federal government shutdown will affect the numbers.

“The shutdown went from October 1st through November 12th, certainly in October you can see there weren’t really shutdown impacts, but that is pretty consistent,” Anderson says. “November, I think we’ll see some influence — that’s when we saw more of the impacts on

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