September Airport Numbers Up

The latest information from the Tallahassee International Airport shows that September 2022 passenger traffic was 70,340. September traffic increased 13.3% when compared to traffic one year ago. The number of passengers was up 8,202 from the 61,486 reported during September 2021.

However, traffic was down 7.4% or 5,275 passengers when compared to the pre-COVID passenger traffic (70,937) reported in August 2019.

Comparing current passenger traffic numbers to September 2019 traffic gives a more realistic view of traffic growth given the impact of the COVID pandemic. 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 15.2% for American Airlines, the Delta Group was down 10.9% and Silver Airways was down 36.3%.

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 September 2022 was 823,972 up 1.05% when compared to the annual rate reported last month and up 53.10% when compared to one year ago. The annualized number of passengers is calculated by summing the previous 12 months of traffic.