Airport Traffic Continues Slide in May

The latest information from the Tallahassee International Airport shows the May 2026 passenger traffic decreased 8.9% when compared to traffic one year ago. The number of passengers was down 7,303 from the 81,850 reported during May 2025 to 74,547 in May 2026.

Relative to 2025, the Passenger Traffic Report shows year-over-year passenger counts in May were down 11.8% for American Airlines and up 7.1% for the Delta Group. Impacting the numbers was the fact that Silver Airways ended service in June 2025.

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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 May over the last four years. The annual rate of passengers at TIA in May 2026 – 869,626 – is down 9.13% when compared to one year ago (956,949). The annualized number of passengers is calculated by summing the previous 12 months of traffic.

May 2026 is the 14 consecutive month that annual passenger traffic has declined.

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