Breeze and Sun Country to Move to Terminal 1 in April The Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority Board passed a $419 million budget Thursday for the fiscal year beginning April 1. The Fiscal Year 2024-2025 budget is based on projected record traffic totaling more than 15.5 million passengers, a 1.1 million passenger increase compared to Fiscal YearRead More
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RDU Continues to Set Passenger Traffic Records in 2024
Airport to Add More Electric Buses to its Fleet RDU started 2024 with record-setting passenger traffic in January. More than 967,600 travelers flew through the airport last month. That was 10.5% higher than January 2023, and 4.6% higher than January 2019. “RDU continues to grow in 2024 with the addition of a new airline, newRead More
RDU Announces Direct Flights to Panama City on Copa Airlines
Route Will Provide a New Gateway to Central and South America and the Caribbean: RDU will make traveling from the Research Triangle region to Central and South America and the Caribbean easier with direct flights to Tocumen International Airport (PTY) in Panama City, Panama on Copa Airlines. Copa will become RDU’s 18th airline and PanamaRead More
RDU Tops All-Time Passenger Traffic Record
Airport Served 14.5 Million Travelers in 2023 RDU rang out 2023 by breaking the annual passenger traffic record set in 2019. More than 14.5 million travelers flew through RDU last year, compared to the previous high of 14.2 million. 2023 traffic topped 2019 by two percent and 2022 by more than 22 percent. “We areRead More
Frontier Airlines Expanding at RDU with Direct Flights to Milwaukee
Airline Also Adding New Routes to Five More Destinations Frontier Airlines will begin direct service from Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) to Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE) in May. The ultra-low fare carrier will also begin nonstop service from RDU to LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in New York, Logan International Airport (BOS) in Boston, Miami International AirportRead More