Cargo tonnage down 10% vs 2021’s record (Middletown, PA – January 25, 2022) – Passenger traffic continues to return to Harrisburg International Airport (HIA) as 1,256,348 passengers used the airport in 2022—an increase of 23 percent compared to 2021. HIA served 1.5 million passengers in 2019—an all-time high—however, due to the impacts of COVID-19, served…
Allegiant to Celebrate 10 Years of Low Fares at HIA
On Wednesday, October 31st, 2012, Allegiant flight 611, an MD-80 aircraft with about 70 passengers on board, departed for Orlando, beginning a new era of airline service from Harrisburg International Airport (HIA). This new kind of airline, called an Ultra-Low-Cost Carrier or ULCC, offered nonstop flights to “alternative” airports in the Orlando and Tampa Bay…
HIA to conduct full-scale Emergency Training Exercise on Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 9:00 AM
Exercise required by FAA every three years FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Scott Miller(717) 948-3900 (Middletown, PA – September 10, 2022) Harrisburg International Airport (HIA), in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations, will conduct a full-scale emergency plan training exercise at the airport in Middletown on Saturday, September 10, 2022 beginning at 9:00 AM. “The FAA…
June 2022 HIA’s busiest month since the pandemic
116,427 passengers used the airport in June 2022 (Middletown, PA – July 27, 2022) – Harrisburg International Airport (HIA) reported its busiest month since the COVID-19 pandemic begin in early 2020, as 116,427 passengers flew into and out of HIA, during June 2022. The previous busiest month was July 2021, with 115,541 passengers. “While we…
New lines. New possibilities.
Imagine your flight from Denver just landed safely at Harrisburg International Airport. Taxiing to the gate, a voice over the intercom says, “Please remain seated with your seat belts securely fastened until we have reached our final parking position.” The plane stops, the fasten seat belt lights go off, and the flight crew opens the…
HIA Expects 17,500 Passengers for July 4th Weekend
(Middletown, PA – June 28, 2022) – The busy summer travel season is expected to continue over the July 4th weekend as Harrisburg International Airport expects 17,500 passengers to fly to and from Harrisburg International Airport (HIA), between Friday, July 1st and Tuesday, July 5th, 2022. “This holiday weekend, traffic will be around 93% of…
HIA receives $3.75 million EDA grant for Cargo Expansion Project
Multi-year $64 million project to begin in 2022 (Middletown, PA – October 12, 2021) – Today, United States Congressman Scott Perry announced a $3.75 million Economic Development Grant for the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority (SARAA), owner and operator of Harrisburg International Airport (HIA), to support landside development of a multi-year cargo apron expansion project….
Records, Rebounds, and Seats, OH MY!
History will record April and May 2020 as the two slowest passenger traffic months in airport history. However, passengers and flights are returning to HIA this summer. April 2020 passenger traffic declined by 96% when compared to April 2019 as airlines reduced flight schedules and practically all non-essential business and leisure traffic nationwide came to…
Harrisburg International Airport Breaks Passenger Record in 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Scott Miller (717) 948-3900 ext. 4620 2019 was 2.5 percent busier than the previous record set in 1997 (Middletown, PA – January 29, 2020) – Harrisburg International Airport (HIA) set a new passenger traffic record in 2019, serving more than 1.5 million passengers for the first time in history. Last year,…
Pacing Toward a Record Year
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Scott Miller (717) 948-3900 ext. 4620 First Nine Months of 2019 Were the Busiest in Airport History (Middletown, PA – October 30, 2019) – More flights to more destinations has more passengers choosing Harrisburg International Airport (HIA). Between January 1st and September 30th, 2019, a record 1,116,688 passengers have flown into…
HIA Hosts Susquehanna Service Dogs in Training and Allegiant for Event
On Saturday, September 9, 2019, Harrisburg International Airport and Allegiant hosted over 55 dogs from Susquehanna Service Dogs for a training event. The familiarization event is an annual outing for Susquehanna Service Dogs, but with partnership from Allegiant, is expanded to include on-board aircraft training. The first part of the training day included riding the…
HIA Sets New Passenger Traffic Record
First six months of 2019 were the busiest in airport history FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Scott Miller (717) 948-3900 ext. 4620 (Middletown, PA – June 26, 2019) – More flights to more destinations should mean more passengers choosing Harrisburg International Airport. So far in 2019, it has. A record 721,427 passengers flew into and out…
May 2019: Busiest May Ever at HIA
Fourth busiest ever at HIA, and second consecutive monthly passenger traffic record (Middletown, PA – June 26, 2019) – May 2019 was the busiest May ever at Harrisburg International Airport (HIA) and the fourth busiest month in the 50-year history of the airport. A total of 137,621 passengers used Harrisburg International Airport (HIA) throughout May…
April 2019: Busiest Ever at HIA
Year-to-date traffic up 15.8 percent (Middletown, PA – June 3, 2019) – The Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority (SARAA) reported a total of 128,830 passengers used Harrisburg International Airport (HIA) during April 2019 making it the busiest April in airport history. Traffic was up 18.3 % vs April 2018 and up 6.9 % over the…
Sarasota: Be. More. Chill.
The last leg of my 6 day trip, we ended in sunny Sarasota, FL. A beautiful city located on the west coast of Florida, centrally located between Punta Gorda and Tampa St. Pete. A town full of arts and culture, home to the country’s #1 beach, and a circus arts conservatory. This coastal town is…
Dallas…It’s Not Just For Cowboys
Here we are on the second leg of our 6 day journey to some of the new and returning routes to Harrisburg International. Daily non-stop flights to Dallas Fort-Worth (DFW) begin on June 7th with American Airlines. After landing at DFW, and a stop at the hotel, I took off for the number one tourist…
HIA Awarded $20 Million for Airport Drainage Improvement
Project to rehabilitate airport dike built in 1958 (Middletown, PA – May 15, 2019) – U. S. Transportation Secretary Elain L. Chao announced today the intent to award $20,249,001 in supplemental funding to Harrisburg International Airport for the repair and rehabilitation of the airport levee along the Susquehanna River. “We’d like to thank Secretary…
Denver. Stay Here, Play There.
To all of those Central Pennsylvanians that have seen the fare sales to Denver, and heard their friends and family talk about Denver, I am here to tell you, Denver is worth the trip. I am on a 6 day journey to 3 of our new and returning destinations from HIA, and my first stop…
TSA Media Event Scheduled For Wednesday, May 8th at 11am
TSA to share summer travel tips at Harrisburg International Airport and explain why TSA asks passengers to remove shoes, laptops and liquids (You can expect to see replica bombs concealed in carry-on bags) Summer travel season across the county is expected to be one the busiest on record for the airline industry. So how to…
Capital City Airport (CXY) Eliminates Landing Fee for Aircraft Less Than 5,000 pounds
Capital City Airport (CXY) Eliminates Landing Fee for Aircraft Less Than 5,000 pounds (New Cumberland, PA—March 25, 2019—The Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority (SARAA), owner and operator of Capital City Airport (CXY) in New Cumberland, PA, has eliminated the landing fee charged to any itinerant aircraft using the airport weighing 5,000 pounds or less Maximum…
March 2019 – General Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Scott Miller (717) 948-3900 ext. 4620 HIA January and February 2019 Traffic up 10.9 percent Busiest January and February since 2005 (Middletown, PA – March 27, 2019) – The Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority (SARAA) reported a total of 197,576 passengers have used Harrisburg International Airport (HIA) during January 2019 and…
REAL ID Mobile Verification Event at HIA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Scott Miller(717) 948-3900 ext. 4620 REAL ID Mobile Verification Event at Harrisburg Intl. Airport (Middletown, PA – March 8, 2019) – PennDOT will be offering a REAL ID Mobile Verification event at Harrisburg International Airport on Tuesday, March 12 and Wednesday, March 13 from 5-8pm. The event will provide an opportunity for…
Allegiant’s “Winter the Dolphin” Plane Makes A Stop at HIA
Plane information courtesy of ClickOrlando.com Winter the Dolphin has appeared on the big screen and draws thousands of visitors to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, but now Winter is going miles high with her latest milestone. To mark its partnership with the aquarium, Allegiant Airlines rolled out a new plane back in July 2018 featuring an image of the rescued bottlenose dolphin. According to Allegiant…
New Non-Stop Flights to Nashville!
ALLEGIANT ANNOUNCES NEW NONSTOP SERVICE TO NASHVILLE WITH FARES AS LOW AS $49* EACH WAY MIDDLETOWN, Penn. Feb. 12, 2019 — Allegiant (NASDAQ: ALGT) today announces service from Harrisburg International Airport (MDT) to Nashville International Airport (BNA) beginning June 6, 2019. To celebrate, the company is offering fares on the new route as low as…
New Non-Stop Service to Fort Lauderdale!
ALLEGIANT ANNOUNCES NONSTOP SERVICE FROM HARRISBURG TO FORT LAUDERDALE WITH ONE-WAY FARES AS LOW AS $59* The new route is part of a 22-route expansion across the airline’s network, connecting locals to more of their favorite destinations Harrisburg, Penn. Aug. 10, 2021 — Allegiant (NASDAQ: ALGT) today announces nonstop service to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International…
March 2021: Busiest Month in a Year
Passenger and Cargo Airlines are Adding Flights for Summer (Middletown, PA – April 30, 2021) – March 2021 was the busiest month at Harrisburg International Airport in a year as 65,402 total passengers used the airport. “While March traffic was still down 2.8% versus March 2020, departing passengers actually increased 4.7 percent,” said Timothy Edwards,…
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