JAMESTOWN (AP) - Northwest Airlines has agreed to reduce fares to and from Jamestown, Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and airport officials say.

The city got nonstop service to the Minneapolis area this month. "It is important that they also have ticket prices that are comparable to other cities," Dorgan said in a statement.

Jamestown Regional Airport Manager Andrew Schneider said Northwest told city officials in an e-mail that fares in Jamestown were being adjusted to "be more competitive with Fargo."

Airport Authority Vice President Jim Boyd said Northwest had lowered rates out of Fargo when Frontier Airlines started serving the city but had not changed the rates to surrounding, competitive airports.

"It is something we'll have to keep an eye on," he said.

"We got a good response from Northwest Airlines," Boyd said. "We appealed to the VP at Northwest for planning and he went to work on the issue that we were no longer comparable to Fargo."

Schneider said numbers for early May indicated more passengers flying out of Jamestown than during the previous month. The first nonstop flight from Jamestown to Minneapolis was May 2.