{"id":13339,"date":"2019-07-19T21:55:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T21:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=13339"},"modified":"2019-07-19T21:55:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T21:55:23","slug":"southwest-florida-international-airport-continues-to-report-record-breaking-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/florida\/southwest-florida-international-airport-continues-to-report-record-breaking-months\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Florida International Airport Continues to Report Record-Breaking Months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers,\nFlorida, continues to record record passenger numbers each month. During June,\n586,319 passengers traveled through the airport, an increase of 7.4 percent\ncompared to June 2018. Year-to-date, passenger traffic is up 9.4 percent\ncompared to last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The traffic leader in June was Delta Air Lines with\n153,972 passengers traveling to and from Fort Myers. Rounding out the top five\nairlines were Southwest (123,772), American (95,304), JetBlue (67,932) and\nUnited (53,464).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southwest Florida International Airport had 4,804\naircraft operations, a decrease of 1 percent compared to June 2018. Page Field\nsaw 8,583 operations, a 12.4 percent increase from June 2018. In addition,\nslightly more than 2.6 million pounds of air freight moved through Southwest\nFlorida International Airport in June 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southwest Florida International Airport served nearly 9.4\nmillion passengers in 2018 and is one of the top 50 U.S. airports for passenger\ntraffic. No ad valorem (property) taxes are used for airport operation or\nconstruction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, Florida, continues to record record passenger numbers each month. During June, 586,319 passengers traveled through the airport, an increase of 7.4 percent compared to June 2018. Year-to-date, passenger traffic is up 9.4 percent compared to last year. The traffic leader in June was Delta Air Lines with 153,972 [&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-13339","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\/13339","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=13339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13340,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13339\/revisions\/13340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}