(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…
Category: Press Releases
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,…
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,…
HIA Ready for Busiest Thanksgiving Ever
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Scott Miller (717) 948-3900 ext. 4620 HIA Ready for Busiest Thanksgiving Ever 30,000 passengers expected at the airport during Thanksgiving Travel week (Middletown, PA – November 22, 2019) – More people than ever will have the opportunity to fly to and from Harrisburg International Airport during the Thanksgiving holiday travel week…
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 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…
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…