International routes return to St. Pete-Clearwater airport after three-year absence

St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport is returning to international travel with three new flights through BermudAir.

The airline's new destinations at the local airport are to Belize, Turks and Caicos and Anguilla. The service will begin in the winter and tickets will go on sale Friday, June 5.

According to an airport spokesperson, the flights bring international travel options back to St. Pete-Clearwater International for the first time since Swoop Airline stopped its Canadian service in 2022.

BermudAir’s new local routes are part of a larger national expansion for the airline, which is adding six new flights to Turks and Caicos and five new flights to Belize. The Anguilla route is a return of seasonal service that’s expanded to include St. Pete-Clearwater International.

BermudAir will only offer the nonstop service to Turks and Caicos and Belize from St Pete-Clearwater.

St. Pete-Clearwater International’s history goes back to shortly after Pearl Harbor when it was built as a military training base known as the Pinellas Army Airfield. After the war, the federal government gave the property to the county which operated Pinellas International Airport and gave rise to the call letters PIE.

It was re-christened St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport in 1958 and the name was shortened in 2013.

The airport saw 233,222 passengers in April, a slight 3% drop from a year ago. Year to date, it has seen 893,497 passengers, keeping it on track with 2025.