Pittsburgh International Airport Passengers up Eleven Percent in November
Passengers, Seats and Operations Continue to Climb
PITTSBURGH – Led by new service on Delta and Spirit, capacity growth on American, JetBlue and Southwest, and a hearty helping of Thanksgiving travelers, total passenger traffic continues to climb at Pittsburgh International Airport to levels not seen since 2006.
Total passengers were up 9.3 percent for the month of October, and pending final reports from carriers, will likely increase by nearly 11 percent for the month of November. This is the airport’s busiest November since 2006.
“We’re happy to see that people are flying more often,” Christina Cassotis, CEO of the Allegheny County Airport Authority, said during Friday’s monthly Board of Director’s meeting.
New twice daily service on Delta Air Lines to Boston, as well as a sixth daily flight on JetBlue, began in October, creating the highest number of flights to Boston ever offered from the airport. On November 9, Spirit Airlines launched daily nonstop service to Tampa and Ft. Myers, Fla. Capacity growth to Chicago on American and to Nashville on Southwest also contributed to overall growth in seats, flights and passengers.
Through November, approximately 8.24 million had traveled, compared to 7.65 million in November 2016.
With recent announcements of new service to Seattle on Alaska Airlines, Montreal on Air Canada, Sarasota-Bradenton on Elite Airways, and Kansas City, Memphis and Palm Beach on OneJet all beginning in 2018, Pittsburgh International Airport will serve 72 destinations nonstop on 17 carriers.