Air travel looks very different now than it did just a few years ago when the coronavirus pandemic grounded folks around the world, putting a halt to travel for both leisure and business.
In 2020, passenger traffic on U.S. airlines was at its lowest since the mid-1980s, with just 369 million passengers. In 2021, the U.S. started to get back to more normal air travel levels, and by 2022, the country was up to 853 million airline passengers. By the looks of it, 2023 is likely to outpace those numbers and return to pre-pandemic levels—nearly 3 million people flew in and out of U.S. airports daily as of April 2023, according to data from the Federal Aviation Administration's Air Traffic Organization.
When you're at the airport, shuffling around with your roller bag, backpack, neck pillow, and water bottle among the thousands of other passengers doing the same, you're probably not too concerned with more than your flight. Is it on time? Who will be sitting next to you? Did your checked bag make it onto the plane?
But when you're not in flight mode, you may be wondering where all of the other folks at your local airport are traveling to. To answer that question, Stacker compiled a list of the most common domestic flights from Buffalo Niagara International using data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Destinations are ranked by total passengers from October 2022 to September 2023.
Read on to find out if your flight patterns are similar to your fellow Buffalo Niagara International travelers.
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1 / 20#20. Harry Reid International (Las Vegas, NV)
- Passengers: 20,562 (0.9% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. Frontier Airlines: 11,049
--- #2. Southwest Airlines: 9,310
--- #3. United Air Lines: 159
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2 / 20#19. Minneapolis-St Paul International (Minneapolis, MN)
- Passengers: 22,172 (1.0% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. Delta Air Lines: 16,075
--- #2. Sun Country Airlines d/b/a MN Airlines: 5,964
--- #3. JetBlue Airways: 121
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3 / 20#18. Philadelphia International (Philadelphia, PA)
- Passengers: 44,749 (2.0% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. Piedmont Airlines: 26,768
--- #2. PSA Airlines: 13,221
--- #3. Republic Airline: 4,570
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4 / 20#17. Denver International (Denver, CO)
- Passengers: 50,535 (2.3% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. Southwest Airlines: 29,555
--- #2. Frontier Airlines: 20,935
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5 / 20#16. Washington Dulles International (Washington, DC)
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6 / 20#15. Ronald Reagan Washington National (Washington, DC)
- Passengers: 54,722 (2.5% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. PSA Airlines: 35,149
--- #2. Republic Airline: 17,290
--- #3. Envoy Air: 1,947
#14. Dallas/Fort Worth International (Dallas/Fort Worth, TX)
- Passengers: 60,732 (2.8% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. American Airlines: 60,732
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8 / 20#13. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Passengers: 71,410 (3.3% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. JetBlue Airways: 38,907
--- #2. Frontier Airlines: 17,469
--- #3. Southwest Airlines: 14,626
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9 / 20#12. Logan International (Boston, MA)
- Passengers: 79,609 (3.6% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. JetBlue Airways: 66,895
--- #2. Delta Air Lines: 11,996
--- #3. Republic Airline: 343
#11. Newark Liberty International (Newark, NJ)
- Passengers: 94,464 (4.3% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. Republic Airline: 45,443
--- #2. United Air Lines: 40,584
--- #3. GoJet Airlines LLC d/b/a United Express: 6,943
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11 / 20#10. Tampa International (Tampa, FL)
- Passengers: 102,794 (4.7% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. Southwest Airlines: 65,229
--- #2. Frontier Airlines: 37,325
--- #3. JetBlue Airways: 143
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12 / 20#9. LaGuardia (New York, NY)
- Passengers: 104,872 (4.8% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. Endeavor Air: 60,553
--- #2. Republic Airline: 44,313
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13 / 20#8. Detroit Metro Wayne County (Detroit, MI)
- Passengers: 113,175 (5.2% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. Delta Air Lines: 94,477
--- #2. Endeavor Air: 10,830
--- #3. SkyWest Airlines: 7,766
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14 / 20#7. Chicago Midway International (Chicago, IL)
- Passengers: 120,926 (5.5% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. Southwest Airlines: 120,793
#6. Charlotte Douglas International (Charlotte, NC)
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16 / 20#5. Chicago O'Hare International (Chicago, IL)
- Passengers: 169,477 (7.7% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. United Air Lines: 86,936
--- #2. Envoy Air: 24,593
--- #3. Republic Airline: 18,244
#4. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (Atlanta, GA)
- Passengers: 181,005 (8.3% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. Delta Air Lines: 167,244
--- #2. Frontier Airlines: 12,695
--- #3. Southwest Airlines: 1,066
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18 / 20#3. Orlando International (Orlando, FL)
- Passengers: 205,407 (9.4% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. Southwest Airlines: 95,907
--- #2. Frontier Airlines: 68,423
--- #3. JetBlue Airways: 40,849
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19 / 20#2. Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (Baltimore, MD)
- Passengers: 207,775 (9.5% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. Southwest Airlines: 207,636
--- #2. Delta Air Lines: 139
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20 / 20#1. John F. Kennedy International (New York, NY)
- Passengers: 235,023 (10.7% of all passengers)
- Top carriers:
--- #1. JetBlue Airways: 144,006
--- #2. Endeavor Air: 76,428
--- #3. Delta Air Lines: 13,173
This story features data reporting by Rob Powell, writing by Jaimie Etkin, and is part of a series utilizing data automation across 199 metros.
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