Orlando International Airport records 10 months of strong growth

Orlando International Airport (MCO) has released figures showing continuous domestic and international passenger growth over the last 10 months.

The airport recorded an 8.8 percent increase in domestic traffic during April 2015, the largest increase in over four and a half years. International traffic also grew during the same period by 9.7 percent to 430,606 travellers. Overall, traffic for April grew by 8.88 percent totalling 3,361,942 passengers in April 2015.

The last 12 months has seen passenger traffic climb by 5.40 percent equating to 36.6 million passengers passing through the airport. Frank Kruppenbacher, Chairman of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority commented on the figures: “Our increase in domestic traffic is a positive reflection of the popularity of this market and with expected new service announcements this trend should continue.

“This reinforces our unanimous decision at our last board meeting to start planning for the South Terminal project.”

Growth at Orlando International Airport has been the result of greater seat availability with 4 percent more capacity from the airlines. Route expansion will continue the increase with a number of additional flights to South America including Brasilia, Brazil and Lima, Puru.

Orlando International predicts a continuation of strong figures during the summer period. It states that the airlines are planning to bring in nearly 4400 additional flights between June, July and August or about 887 thousand additional seats which is an 8 percent increase in seating availability over 2014.