Airport traffic points to busier season

FORT MYERS — Forecasts of a busier winter tourism season are starting to show up in passenger numbers at Southwest Florida International Airport.

Nearly 670,000 passengers passed through the Fort Myers airport in November, a 4.8% increase over the same month one year ago. Year-to-date, passenger traffic is up 4.4% compared with the same 11 months in 2013.

The growth in passenger numbers comes despite a small 1% increase in the number of takeoffs and landings in November at Southwest Florida International compared with November 2013.