October Airport Traffic Up 9.0%

The latest information from the Tallahassee International Airport shows that October 2022 passenger traffic was 77,935. October traffic increased 9.0% when compared to traffic one year ago. The number of passengers was up 6,409 from the 71,526 reported during October 2021.

However, traffic was down 1.3% or 994 passengers when compared to the pre-COVID passenger traffic (70,937) reported in October 2019.

Comparing current passenger traffic numbers to October 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 17.5% for American Airlines, the Delta Group was down 12.2% and Silver Airways was down 43.1%.

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 October 2022 was 830,172 up 0.75% when compared to the annual rate reported last month and up 43.56% when compared to one year ago. The annualized number of passengers is calculated by summing the previous 12 months of traffic.