Tallahassee December Airport Traffic Continues to Lag Pre-Pandemic Levels

The latest information from the Tallahassee International Airport shows that December 2021 passenger traffic was 68,630. This is 12.0% or 9,832 passengers below the pre-COVID passenger traffic (78,642) reported in December 2019.

December traffic increased 111.0% when compared to traffic one year ago. The number of passengers was up from 32,528 during December 2020 to 68,630 this year.

The 111.0% increase this month is relative to December 2020 traffic when air travel was still feeling the impact of the COVID pandemic. Looking at November 2019 traffic gives a more realistic view of passenger traffic growth. For this reason, we have included traffic from 2019 in the Passenger Traffic Report below.

Relative to 2019, the Passenger Traffic Report shows passenger counts were down 3.65% for American Airlines, the Delta Group was down 20.0% and Silver Airways was down 39.9%.

The graph below shows the annualized number of passengers for the last 24-months. The annual rate of passengers at TIA in December 2021 was 656,192 up 5.8% when compared to the annual rate reported last month.

The annualized number of passengers is calculated by summing the previous 12 months of traffic.