Area airport reports record year with 3.87M passengers

The Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport is on track to hit 7 million passengers around 2025 when the expansion project is slated to be complete.

By Business Observer Staff
| 5:00 p.m. January 18, 2023
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The Sarasota Bradenton International Airport reached another record in 2022 — 21.6% more passengers than in 2021.

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The Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport still managed to pull off a calendar-year passenger record by more than 20%, even after two storm-related air traffic hiccups — one in September and one in December.

First it was Hurricane Ian. Then a winter storm over the holidays blew through. Yet, still, 3.87 million passengers travelled through the airport in 2022. That's a 21.6% increase over 2021’s record year of 3.16 million passengers, according to a story first reported on by the Business Observer's sister paper the Sarasota Observer.

“I want to thank the Sarasota and Bradenton community, along with visitors from all over the world, for supporting the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport in 2022,’’ Rick Piccolo, president and CEO of the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport, says in a statement. “We look forward to serving you in 2023.”