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1M+
Annual passengers (2025)
~3,000
Daily travelers
~80
Daily flights
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Montana's only hub airport
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Why Advertise

BIL is the single best OOH opportunity for reaching travelers in south-central Montana.

BIL is the single best out-of-home (OOH) opportunity for reaching travelers in south-central Montana and northern Wyoming. For brands already running billboard advertising in Billings, adding airport placements layers a captive, high-dwell-time environment on top of roadside reach: passengers wait at gates, linger at baggage claim, and walk the concourses with little to distract them.

These are exactly the conditions that make airport advertising one of the most-recalled OOH formats.

Not Boston. "Logan" in this guide always refers to Billings Logan International Airport (BIL) in Billings, Montana, not Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). The airport is named for Dick Logan, its first airport manager.

BIL audience snapshot: captive, high-dwell, and growing.

Passenger and operational figures are directional and drawn from Billings Logan International Airport and regional reporting (2024–2025).

TARGET AUDIENCE

Who you reach at BIL

A blend of business, leisure, regional, and high-income visitor traffic flowing through Montana's only hub airport.

Business travelers

B2B

Connecting through Montana's only hub airport: finance, healthcare, agriculture, and energy professionals.

Leisure & tourism travelers

Tourism

Billings is a primary gateway to Yellowstone National Park, the Beartooth Mountains, and Eastern Montana.

Regional residents

Regional

From five Eastern Montana communities served by Essential Air Service flights through BIL.

High-income visitors

HHI+

Destination travelers tend to skew higher in disposable income, making BIL strong for tourism, hospitality, healthcare, financial services, and local-brand campaigns.

FORMATS & PLACEMENTS

BIL airport advertising formats and inventory

Billings Logan International Airport advertising inventory is concentrated in the terminal's highest-traffic zones. Exact units and availability rotate, but the formats below represent what is typically offered at BIL.

Backlit / lighted display boxes Backlit

Positioned across concourses, ticketing, and baggage claim walls, these static out-of-home units are designed to deliver always-on brand visibility with a strong nighttime and low-light presence in the terminal.

Where: Concourses, ticketing, baggage claim walls · Best for: Always-on brand visibility with strong nighttime/low-light presence

Wall and pillar displays Static

Applied to concourse walls and structural columns where passengers naturally pass through high-foot-traffic corridors at eye level.

Where: Concourse walls, structural columns · Best for: Eye-level reach in high-foot-traffic corridors

3-D display kiosks Experiential

Floor-standing units placed in concourse and baggage claim floor space, ideal for product showcases and experiential, dimensional place-based advertising creative that breaks the plane of a traditional poster.

Where: Concourse and baggage claim floor space · Best for: Product showcases, experiential and dimensional creative

Digital displays Digital

Available in select high-traffic terminal locations, these digital out-of-home screens offer flexible messaging, rotating creative, and time-of-day targeting options.

Where: Select high-traffic terminal locations · Best for: Flexible messaging, rotating creative, time-of-day targeting

Baggage claim displays High-dwell

Positioned above and beside the carousels, where travelers are a captive audience standing still and waiting for their bags.

Where: Above and beside carousels · Best for: Long dwell time, captive audience waiting for bags

Large-format / spectacular placements Spectacular

Reserved for atrium, entry, and high-ceiling areas where brands can dominate the visual environment and own the category at the airport.

Where: Atrium, entry, and high-ceiling areas · Best for: Dominant share-of-voice and category ownership

Floor graphics and window clings Supplemental

Applied to concourse walkways and glazing, these windowscape and floor placements add wayfinding-style attention and supplemental reach alongside primary placements.

Where: Concourse walkways and glazing · Best for: Wayfinding-style attention and supplemental reach

A note on digital vs. static: BIL inventory is primarily static (backlit and 3-D units), with digital availability in select locations. If a digital-only campaign is a hard requirement, tell us up front and we will confirm what is bookable for your flight dates before you commit.

PRICING DATA

How much does it cost to advertise at Billings Logan International Airport?

There is no published rate card for BIL. Pricing is quoted per campaign. That is normal for regional airports, and it is exactly the kind of opacity AdQuick removes. Here is how Billings airport advertising rates compare to traditional billboards and how they are actually determined.

What drives BIL advertising rates

Placement: baggage claim and post-security concourse units command more than landside or lower-traffic positions.
Format: large-format and 3-D kiosks cost more than standard backlit boxes; digital carries a different rate structure than static.
Flight length: the campaign duration. Airport advertising is typically sold in 4-, 13-, 26-, or 52-week flights, with longer commitments lowering the effective weekly rate.
Number of units: a multi-unit package across zones raises total spend but improves reach and frequency.
Production and installation: printing, materials, and install/removal are usually quoted separately from media.
Seasonality and availability: summer (Yellowstone travel season) is peak demand; rates and inventory move with the calendar.

A simple CPM framework for BIL

Out-of-home is most often compared on CPM (cost per thousand impressions):

CPM = (Total campaign cost ÷ Total impressions) × 1,000

To estimate impressions at BIL, start from passenger throughput. With more than 1 million annual passengers (~3,000 per day), a unit positioned in a high-traffic zone can be exposed to a large share of daily travelers, though real impression counts depend on the specific placement, sightlines, and dwell time, which AdQuick models per unit.

Illustrative example: a 13-week campaign reaching an estimated 250,000+ qualified impressions would be evaluated by dividing your media cost by those impressions and multiplying by 1,000. Airport CPMs generally land well below the cost of equivalent broadcast or digital reach in a market the size of Billings; one reason airport OOH is efficient for regional dominance. AdQuick layers verified impressions and attribution on top of these estimates so you can compare BIL CPMs to your other media on the same footing.

The honest version

Anyone quoting you an exact BIL price without checking live availability is guessing. Request a quote and AdQuick returns real, current pricing with the impression math shown, with no markup games and no mystery rate card.

HOW TO BOOK

How to advertise at BIL: step-by-step

Advertising at Billings Logan International Airport involves the airport's commercial-activity approval process. AdQuick manages this end to end for advertisers, but here is the full path so you know what to expect.

01

Define your goal and budget

Decide your target audience, campaign dates (flight), and rough budget. Tourism, healthcare, finance, and local brands are the most common BIL advertisers.

02

Request availability

Submit a quote request. AdQuick checks live BIL inventory (which units, zones, and dates are open) and returns options with pricing and estimated impressions.

03

Select formats and flight

Choose your placements and campaign length. Mixing baggage claim with concourse units typically delivers the best reach-and-frequency balance.

04

Commercial approval

All advertising at BIL is governed by the airport's commercial-activities and "doing business" policies and may require a lease, permit, or license. AdQuick handles the agreements and coordinates approvals with the airport.

05

Creative and specs

Build artwork to the exact unit specifications (dimensions, bleed, file format, material). AdQuick provides the spec sheet so your creative passes review the first time.

06

Production and installation

Printing and install are scheduled around your flight start date. Plan lead time for production and posting; regional airports require advance scheduling.

07

Launch and measure

Your campaign goes live. AdQuick tracks delivery and provides reporting so you can tie airport OOH to business outcomes.

Official BIL resources

Official BIL resources worth bookmarking: the airport's Advertising, Commercial Activities, Doing Business, and Bids pages on flybillings.com cover policy and procurement detail. AdQuick translates all of it into a single, managed booking.

COMPLIANCE

Billings airport advertising RFP & concession updates

Concession opportunities and RFP timing for BIL display advertising.

Display advertising concession & RFP process

Display advertising at BIL is periodically tied to a display advertising concession and may be subject to a public Request for Proposals (RFP) through the airport's bids process. If you are a media operator or large advertiser tracking concession opportunities, or you simply want to know the current status before planning a campaign, AdQuick monitors BIL procurement activity.

Want to be notified when BIL advertising availability or RFP status changes?

Tell us your campaign window and we will flag relevant openings.

PLATFORM

Why book BIL airport advertising through AdQuick

AdQuick is the modern way to buy out-of-home. For Billings Logan International Airport advertising specifically, that means:

Transparent pricing

Marketplace

See real options for BIL instead of negotiating blind against an unpublished rate card.

One platform to plan, buy, and measure

Unified

Request, compare, book, and track your BIL campaign in a single dashboard.

Availability you can trust

Live

Live inventory checks so you only consider units you can actually book for your dates.

Managed approvals and specs

Done-for-you

AdQuick handles the airport's commercial-activity agreements and supplies exact creative specifications.

Measurement built in

Attribution

Impression estimates up front and delivery reporting after launch, so airport OOH is accountable like your digital channels.

National reach, local execution

100+ airports

AdQuick supports airport advertising across 100+ U.S. airports, so a BIL campaign can scale into a multi-market plan.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything advertisers ask before booking a campaign at Billings Logan International Airport (BIL): from rates and formats to commercial approval and Yellowstone seasonality.

Yes. Billings Logan International Airport (BIL) sells terminal advertising across baggage claim, ticketing, gate, and concourse areas. All advertising is subject to the airport's commercial-activity approval. AdQuick books and manages BIL campaigns for you.
BIL inventory typically includes backlit/lighted display boxes, wall and pillar displays, 3-D display kiosks, digital displays in select locations, baggage claim displays, and large-format placements. Exact units rotate with availability. See common airport advertising examples for visual references, or request current BIL options.
There is no public BIL rate card. Cost depends on placement, format, campaign length, number of units, production, and seasonality. AdQuick provides a transparent, current quote with the CPM and impression math shown — see how airport ad costs are typically structured for general benchmarks.
Define your goal and budget, request availability through AdQuick, choose your formats and flight dates, complete the airport's commercial-activity approval and agreements, submit creative to spec, then schedule production and installation. AdQuick manages the full process.
No. BIL is Billings Logan International Airport in Billings, Montana, the state's only hub airport. BOS is Boston Logan International Airport in Massachusetts. They are different airports; this page covers BIL.
You can work directly with the airport's commercial activities office, or book through AdQuick, which handles availability, pricing, agreements, creative specs, and installation in one place.
BIL inventory is primarily static (backlit and 3-D kiosks), with digital displays in select locations. For context on what works best in airport digital, see the best digital ad solutions for airports. AdQuick confirms what digital inventory is bookable for your specific flight dates.
Summer is peak season because Billings is a gateway to Yellowstone National Park, driving higher tourism traffic. Demand and rates rise with passenger volume, so book peak windows early.
Metric Figure Why it matters for advertisers
Annual passengers More than 1 million. BIL crossed the 1-million mark in a calendar year for the first time in 2025 A growing, repeatable audience for sustained campaigns
Daily passengers ~3,000 travelers per day Consistent weekday and weekend reach
Daily flights ~80 departures and arrivals Frequent turnover and high impression volume
Market position Montana's only hub airport; the state's 2nd-busiest by passenger volume Statewide reach concentrated in one terminal
Regional role Economic gateway for southeastern Montana and northern Wyoming; gateway for Yellowstone-bound tourism A blend of business, leisure, and high-income visitor traffic
Top destinations Denver, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Las Vegas, Dallas, Phoenix National connectivity = national and out-of-region exposure

Ready to advertise at Billings Logan International Airport?

Tell AdQuick your goals, target dates, and budget. We will return live BIL availability, transparent pricing with impression estimates, and a clear path to launch.

Live inventory · Transparent pricing · Managed approvals & creative specs · Impression estimates and delivery reporting · Planning beyond Montana? AdQuick supports airport advertising in 100+ U.S. cities; build a BIL campaign and scale it nationally from one dashboard.

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