Neptune still bases some of its current fleet of British Aerospace 146 jets at Alamogordo during active forest fire seasons.

[1] For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2023, the airport had 34,100 aircraft operations, an average of 93 per day: 94% general aviation, 6% military, and <1% air taxi.

[1] The airport installed an 8-kilowatt solar photovoltaic array in November 2008, using a $100,000 grant from the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department.

By 1960, Continental was operating daily Vickers Viscount propjet service on a roundtrip routing of Denver, Colorado Springs.

Zia ceased operating in early 1980 and Air Midwest then began flights to Albuquerque with Swearingen Metroliner propjet commuter aircraft later that year.

JetAire, a new commuter airline operating Handley Page Jetstream propjets, also served the Alamogordo to Albuquerque market for a few months in 1985.

The Caravan is an unpressurized and smaller and slower type of aircraft and passenger traffic dwindled causing the EAS subsidies to be cancelled in 2012.