{"id":13168,"date":"2019-06-20T14:40:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T14:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=13168"},"modified":"2019-06-20T14:40:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T14:40:38","slug":"southwest-florida-international-airport-reports-record-breaking-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/florida\/southwest-florida-international-airport-reports-record-breaking-may\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Florida International Airport Reports Record-Breaking May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During May, 725,754 passengers traveled through Southwest\nFlorida International Airport in Fort Myers, Fla., an increase of 8.5 percent\ncompared to May 2018. Year-to-date, passenger traffic is up 9.6 percent\ncompared to last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The traffic leader in May was Delta Air Lines with 187,907\npassengers traveling to and from Fort Myers. Rounding out the top five airlines\nwere Southwest (141,576), American (122,639), JetBlue (85,852) and United\n(83,586).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southwest Florida International Airport had 6,018 aircraft\noperations, an increase of 3.7 percent compared to May 2018. Page Field saw\n9,294 operations, a 29.8 percent increase from May 2018. In addition, slightly\nmore than 3 million pounds of air freight moved through Southwest Florida\nInternational Airport in May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southwest Florida International Airport served nearly 9.4 million passengers in 2018 and is one of the top 50 U.S. airports for passenger traffic. No ad valorem (property) taxes are used for airport operation or construction. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flylcpa.com\">www.flylcpa.com<\/a> or Like Us on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/flyRSW\">www.facebook.com\/flyRSW<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During May, 725,754 passengers traveled through Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, Fla., an increase of 8.5 percent compared to May 2018. Year-to-date, passenger traffic is up 9.6 percent compared to last year. The traffic leader in May was Delta Air Lines with 187,907 passengers traveling to and from Fort Myers. Rounding out the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13169,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13168\/revisions\/13169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}