Florida's Largest Commercial Airports

[Metro Jacksonville]

Florida's Largest Commercial Airports



Florida's largest airports, in terms of 2007 passengers, according to the Airport Council International (ACI-NA)

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http://www.metrojacksonville.com/content/view/816

[David]

Take that, Sanford!

[reednavy]

Panama City's numbers will explode in 2010 with their new airport opening.

[chipwich]

I really hope the current downturn in the airline industry does not affect Jacksonville too much.  The airport is one of the most important attributes our city has.  It facilitates business and is the first and last impression many travelers have of Jacksonville (not to mention, it would be just great to have a few more direct flights).

[EP]

You are right, reednavy.  That new Panama City airport is going to be massive, especially when St. Joe uses it to develop the entire panhandle.

[tufsu1]

don't count on it...while the site for the new PC airport is huge, the terminal will not be....in fact, the 2023 projections are less than 500,000 enplanements (around 3% increase per year)

[heights unknown]

Boy, Jacksonville's numbers have exploded since 2000 and the 90's; I remember when we barely had 2 to 3 million passengers a year; I wouldn't be surprised if we surpassed West Palm Beach or even Fort Myers soon.  Good growth in our metro area.

Heights Unknown

[fightingosprey07]

I think we are in for a big shock with air travel. Prices are going to skyrocket soon. Right now, most airlines still use fuel futures they purchased a year ago. But they will run out soon and they will have to pass on the cost somehow. In less competitive markets, I have seen prices double the last year.

Prices will defeinitely have to go up to keep the airlines in business, but according to this article in the business journals, they will only need to go up about 20 percent.

If gas prices don't fall quickly, the U.S. airline industry will have a "massive failure" that will cause more bankruptcies, including liquidations, according to a study published jointly Friday by AirlineForecasts LLC and the Business Travel Coalition.

The study claims $130 a barrel oil prices will increase airlines' annual costs by $30 billion, but airlines are only able to generate $4 billion in fare increases and incremental fees. Fuel hedge benefits also could offset $5 billion to $6 billion of the increased fuel costs. But the major airlines could face $9 billion in net losses over the next 12 months if the current range of oil prices holds.

The study suggests airline fares will have to increase at least 20 percent just to cover the jump in fuel costs since 2007 -- an impossible increase, given the level of uneconomic seat capacity in the airline system.

At current oil prices, several large and small U.S. airlines will default on their obligations to creditors beginning at the end of 2008 and early 2009, the study predicts, warning the airlines "have never faced a darker future."

"U.S. commercial aviation is in full-blown crisis and heading toward a catastrophe," the study notes. "Airlines are the primary source of inter-city transportation, critical to national and local economic development, the flow of human capital, movement of just-in-time parts for manufacturing, perishable food and other goods critical to our economy. With airlines gravely threatened, so is our economic well-being."

http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2008/06/09/daily33.html?surround=lfn

I don't see a 20 percent increase as "impossible" as the article says, but then again I don't fly very often.

[ProjectMaximus]

Anywhere to find a ranking of busiest airports in the US that goes far enough to see where JAX is?

The link provided no longer works, and I couldn't find it anywhere else in that site.

[Ocklawaha]

Look into my crystal,

I see crushed rock

I see catenary

I smell creosote

The smell of freshly welded steel

The ring of Spike Mauls

The songs of the Gandy Dancers

I see 40 trains a day at Jacksonville Terminal again

It's a bit foggy, but are those Amtrak? or are those FEC, CSX and NS locomotives?

I see Money $$$$ lots of money...

JOHN HENRY HAS RE-ENTERED THE BUILDING!

OCKLAWAHA

[fhrathore]

Does anyone know when the new terminal will be open?

[blizz01]

Is there a site that just post direct flights only from airports (JAX)?

[Duke]

Does anyone know when the new terminal will be open?

I read about it somewhere and I want to say it's either late this month or early/mid November...  Same deal as Concourse A, one side will be used until the original concourse C is demolished.

[alta]

I have heard November also.  Sometime before Thanksgiving.

[chipwich]

Is there a site that just post direct flights only from airports (JAX)?

Here is the link about JIA on Wikipedia.  I use Wikipedia to find out which airports have direct flights, so I can accordingly when flying anywhere.  It is usually very very accurate and updated whenever an airline adds or discontinues a direct route.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonville_International_Airport