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 69.4% in July when compared to traffic one year ago. The number of passengers was down from 71,065 during July 2019 to 21,713 this year.
Last month passenger traffic was 17,223 and June month-over-month traffic was down 76.0%.
The Passenger Traffic Report shows passenger counts decreased for the three major carriers. American was down 57.5%, the Delta Group was down 80.4% 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 July was 606,718. Due to the major decline during the last three months, the annualized rate is 27.8% 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.
Tallahasseee International Airport is laughable. The International part. If you add in 21,713 passengers in one month? July which should be a busy month (?) it is sickening.