Airport Passenger Traffic Up 11.3% in September

The latest information from the Tallahassee International Airport shows that passenger traffic increased in September by 11.3% when compared to traffic one year ago. The number of passengers was up from 63,097 during last September to 70,248 this year.

The Passenger Traffic Report shows passenger counts increased for the two major carriers. American was up 19.2% and the Delta Group was up 10.7%. Silver Airways was down 25.6%.

The graph below shows the annualized number of passengers for the last 24-months. The annual rate of passengers at TIA in September was 849,752. This is 7.30% above the annualized rate reported during this month last year. The annualized number of passengers is calculated by summing the previous 12 months of traffic.

The annualized passenger traffic before the Great Recession was approximately 947,000 in 2007.