April Passenger Traffic Up 5.4% Over Pre-Pandemic Numbers

The latest information from the Tallahassee International Airport shows that April 2022 passenger traffic was 74,892. This is 5.4% or 3,856 passengers above the pre-COVID passenger traffic (71,036) reported in April 2019.

April traffic increased 61.3% when compared to traffic one year ago. The number of passengers was up 28,464 from the 41,506 reported during April 2021.

The 61.3% increase this month is relative to the April 2021 traffic when air travel was still feeling the impact of the COVID pandemic. Looking at April 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 up 14.9% for American Airlines, the Delta Group was down 0.2% and Silver Airways was down 27.2%.

The graph below shows the annualized number of passengers for the last 37-months. The highlighted numbers on the graph indicate the annual traffic during the month of March over the last four years.

The annual rate of passengers at TIA in April 2022 was 774,588 up 3.8% when compared to the annual rate reported last month. The annualized number of passengers is calculated by summing the previous 12 months of traffic.