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International travel jump lifts Miami International Airport

Written by on November 30, 2021
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International travel jump lifts Miami International Airport

Miami International Airport has averaged 5,000 more international passenger arrivals daily since travel restrictions were lifted, and totals now surpass 2019.

Passenger traffic rose 6% from Nov. 8 – the day the US welcomed back vaccinated international fliers – to Nov. 23, compared to that period in 2019.

New international routes to Amsterdam; Casablanca, Morocco; Chetumal, Mexico; Dublin; and Montreal are to begin this month, the Aviation Department said, flown by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Royal Air Maroc, American Airlines, Aer Lingus, and Montreal-based Air Transat, respectively.
For the 12-day Thanksgiving travel period Nov. 19 to 30, the airport projected 10.7% more passengers than in that period in 2019.

The Aviation Department said Nov. 21 was MIA’s second busiest day ever, with more than 158,000 passengers. The busiest was Jan. 5, 2020, before pandemic shutdowns.

Nov. 8 saw 955 passenger flights carry 131,138. Last year the 465 flights on that date had 51,807 passengers and in 2019 the 885 flights carried 129,181.

MIA handled 103 more flights Nov. 8 than Nov. 8, 2019, up 11.6%, but with 3,549 fewer passengers.

From Oct. 24 to Nov. 23, the 27,877 passenger flights carried 3,725,669 persons, up from 26,736 flights and 3,704,824 fliers in 2019, a 4.3% gain in flights and 0.6% in passengers. In 2020, that same span had only 13,305 passenger flights and 1,453,451 fliers, an Aviation Department report shows.

Saturdays are the week’s busiest day, said Greg Chin, aviation communications director, and the Saturday after Nov. 8 saw 127,731 passengers and 977 flights, 145.3% more flights and 87.5% more passengers than last year. Included were 23,616 international travelers flying to the US and 21,246 persons traveling abroad. For domestic flights, 39,094 travelers arrived at MIA and 41,434 departed to US destinations.

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