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Some 360,000 passengers departed from Orlando International Airport between May 27th and June 1st.
That’s compared with the only 55,000 passengers that used the airport last Memorial Day Weekend at the height of the pandemic.
These numbers represent a 500 percent increase in air traffic over the same time last year and a 12 percent decrease in travel over the six-day holiday in 2019.
In a statement, Greater Orlando Aviation Authority CEO Phil Brown says the strong kickoff to the summer season is encouraging.
Brown says expanded routes and increased seat capacity on flights are all helping the airport rebound.
Starting this week, MCO will welcome its first transatlantic flights back to Central Florida when Lufthansa resumes operations from Germany.
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Phil Brown, CEO of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, talks to Matthew Peddie about the challenge of keeping Florida’s busiest airport running during a pandemic.
Orlando International Airport’s passenger traffic is picking up again. The airport says its memorial day weekend traffic is expected to be not far off where it was in 2019. That’s a far cry from this time last year, when passenger traffic had virtually ground to a halt.
Phil Brown, CEO of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, announced not long ago that he’s stepping down- although he’ll stay on until the board hires a new CEO. He also wants to see the South Terminal through to completion.
New Fortress checkweigher for SME and dairy Designed for the SME and dairy sector to offset inflation and farmgate price hikes – notably rising grain feed prices and higher production costs – Fortress Technology is launching its new Raptor Checkweigher at Foodex 2021.
Created for artisan food businesses to improve profit margins by driving down expensive overfilling, the new Raptor Checkweigher is the company’s most high spec economic checkweigher for washdown environments. By reducing product giveaway on premium product lines, the company said the payment is fast. In some cases, predicted ROI can be several weeks or less.
At the start of 2021, global food prices hit a six-year high. Already hit by income losses during the pandemic, now the cost of food staples, including essential ingredients such as grains, sugar, soybeans, corn, cocoa and spices, is impacting pricing strategies and profits for many SMEs.