Tampa International Airport (TPA)
New car rental facility is almost complete. scheduled to open in February, I believe
Icelandair has started
NK starting MSY
UPS moving to TPA from PIE in late October
http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=f8 ... 361680c6f7
Air Transat begins YYZ & YUL in February
DL resumes SLC in December
F9
Buffalo (begins December 6, 2017), Long Island/Islip (begins October 5, 2017), Providence (begins October 5, 2017),Trenton
Seasonal: Colorado Springs (begins October 6, 2017), Columbus–Glenn (begins December 17, 2017), Indianapolis (begins November 12, 2017),[Kansas City (begins December 16, 2017),Milwaukee (begins November 11, 2017), Minneapolis/St. Paul (begins October 5, 2017), Nashville (begins December 17, 2017),St. Louis (begins October 6, 2017)
TPA traffic 2017 YTD
http://www.tampaairport.com/sites/defau ... TSHARE.pdf
St. Petersburg/Clearwater International Airport (PIE)
Allegiant is now all Airbus @ PIE
FDOT awards PIE....Florida Airport of the Year
http://www.fly2pie.com/docs/default-sou ... f?sfvrsn=0
August traffic up 12%
http://www.fly2pie.com/docs/default-sou ... f?sfvrsn=0
July traffic, 2nd biggest month in history
http://www.fly2pie.com/docs/default-sou ... f?sfvrsn=0
Allegiant starts 4 new routes this fall:
Year-round nonstop service to St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport (PIE) from:
1. Norfolk, Virginia - begins October 4, 2017
2. Milwaukee - begins October 13, 2017
3. Ogdensburg, New York - begins November 16, 2017
Seasonal nonstop service to St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport (PIE) from:
1. Phoenix / Mesa - begins November 15, 2017
Sarasota/Bradenton International Airport (SRQ)
New FAA tower opening soon.
SRQ was the only SW Florida airport that had a loss in 2016:
http://www.bradenton.com/news/business/ ... 00314.html
Looks like SRQ was down October through April, but ticked upward in May & June
Elite Airways starting HPN soon. Another new route will follow shortly.
http://www.bradenton.com/news/business/ ... 45677.html
New 1-stop to Halifax, NS
Looks like Westjet has dropped SRQ
Punta Gorda Airport (PGD)
PGD continues growing with G4. I think F9 has left.
Pax traffic up for 44th consecutive month...June 2017 saw a 10% increase from June 2016
http://www.flypgd.com/uploads/newsfiles/file55.pdf
new year-round nonstop service through
Allegiant to Rochester, New York, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Flint, Michigan, and Newburgh, New York, and seasonal
nonstop service to St. Cloud, Minnesota
Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW)
F9 adding GRR, MSP, OMA
http://www.flylcpa.com/uploads/newsfiles/file438.pdf
Traffic in August was over 11% and for the year to date, up 3.3%
http://www.flylcpa.com/uploads/newsfiles/file439.pdf
Naples Municipal Airport (APF)
Elite Airways leaves Naples.
http://archive.naplesnews.com/business/ ... 1711.html/
http://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/lo ... /99791554/
Wonder why Naples failed, but Vero Beach is doing fine
http://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/ ... /96666122/
Jetblue was interested in APF
https://www.businessobserverfl.com/sect ... ing-naples
but the airport caved to the NIMBYS
http://archive.naplesnews.com/business/ ... 9211.html/
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