During April, 813,329 passengers traveled through Southwest Florida worldwide Airport, a decrease of 4.3 percent compared to April 2009. Year-to-date, passenger traffic is losing 2.4 percent from the same period previous year.

The traffic head in April was Delta with 159,448 passengers traveling to and from Fort Myers. Rounding out the pinnacle five airlines were AirTran (131,712), JetBlue (108,177), Southwest (92,801) and Continental (82,156).

Southwest Florida International Airport had 8,658 aircraft actions (takeoffs and landings), a decrease of 3 percent compared to April 2009. Page Field General Aviation Airport saw 7,897 movements, an enlarge of 12.2 percent from April 2009. In addition, almost 3 million pounds of air freight moved through Southwest Florida International Airport in April 2010.

Southwest Florida International Airport served over 7.4 million passengers in 2009 and is one of the pinnacle 50 U.S. airports for passenger traffic. No ad valorem (property) taxes are used for airport process or construction.