Miami Worldwide Airport the busiest in Florida for 2022

Miami Worldwide Airport (MIA) kicked off the New Yr with a brand new passenger document and title: the busiest airport in Florida. In 2022, MIA served greater than 50.6 million passengers, shattering its document of 45.9 million set in 2019 by practically ten % and surpassing Orlando Worldwide Airport’s (MCO) 2022 whole of 50.1 million vacationers final yr by half one million.

MIA welcomed a document 29.3 million home vacationers final yr in comparison with 23.5 million in 2019, whereas additionally serving 21.3 million worldwide passengers in 2022, which was a million fewer than in 2019 however 8.3 million greater than in 2021.

In comparison with the airport’s whole of 37.3 million passengers in 2021, when the aviation trade was nonetheless recovering from the pandemic, MIA served 13.3 million extra passengers in 2022 for a large leap of 35 % yr over yr. In 2022, MIA additionally matched its document of two.7 million tons of freight set in 2021, by dealing with 2.2 million tons of worldwide freight and 500,000 tons of home shipments.

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“Along with MIA main our neighborhood’s profitable financial restoration from the pandemic, it’s once more main the best way for the state of Florida as properly!” mentioned Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. “Congratulations to the MIA workforce and companions on surpassing 50 million passengers for the primary time in its historical past. Passenger progress represents tourism income, job creation, and expanded alternatives in Miami-Dade County – making all county residents proud.”

Contributing to MIA’s rebound from the pandemic have been hub service American Airways and its subsidiary Envoy, serving 31.8 million passengers at MIA in 2022, which was 63 % of the airport’s whole and a rise of 1 million passengers over 2019 for the airline.

Since 2019, MIA has additionally welcomed low-cost carriers Spirit Airways, Southwest Airways, and JetBlue Airways, which now rank because the airport’s second, fourth, and eighth-busiest passenger airways in seat capability, respectively. Moreover, MIA’s record-breaking yr in 2022 included the addition of 15 worldwide routes: six within the Caribbean (Camaguey, Holguin, Santa Clara, Santiago de Cuba, and Varadero, Cuba; and San Salvador, The Bahamas); 5 in South America (Brasilia, Fortaleza and Manaus, Brazil; and Bucaramanga and Santa Marta, Colombia); three in Europe (Dublin, Eire; Paris, France; and Rome, Italy); and Vancouver, Canada.

Lastly, MIA ended 2022 with its busiest winter vacation journey interval from December 21 to January 6, when 2.6 million passengers traveled by way of the airport – a 2.4 % enhance over its earlier document throughout the identical 17-day interval in 2021.