Airport Traffic Down in June, Annual Rate Down 20%.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take a toll on air travel. The latest information from the Tallahassee International Airport shows passenger traffic decreased 76.4% in June when compared to traffic one year ago. The number of passengers was down from 71,747 during June 2019 to 17,223 this year.

In May month-over-month traffic was down 88.4%.

The Passenger Traffic Report shows passenger counts decreased for the three major carriers. American was down 62.5%, the Delta Group was down 87.9% and Silver Airways was down 100.0%.

The graph below shows the annualized number of passengers for the last 24-months. The annual rate of passengers at TIA in May was 656,613. Due to the major decline during the last three months, the annualized rate is 21.3% below the annual 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.