Types of airports
Primary:
Primary Airports are Commercial Service Airports that have more than 10,000 passenger boardings each year.
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Daytona Beach
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Destin-Fort Walton Beach
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Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood
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Gainesville
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Jacksonville
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Key West
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Melbourne Orlando
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Miami
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Northeast Florida
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Northwest Florida Beaches
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Orlando
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Orlando Sanford
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Palm Beach
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Pensacola
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Punta Gorda
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St Pete – Clearwater
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Sarasota – Bradenton
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Southwest Florida
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Tallahassee
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Tampa
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Vero Beach
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Reliever
A relief airport or reliever airport is an airport that is built or designated to provide relief or additional capacity to an area when the primary commercial airport(s) requires additional capacity, on a long-term or temporary basis.
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Avon Park Executive
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Boca Raton
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Clearwater
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DeLand-Taylor
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Fort Lauderdale Executive
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Fort Myers Page
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Herlong
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Jacksonville Executive
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Kissimmee Gateway
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Knight
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Lakeland Linder
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Lantana (Palm Beach county)
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Miami Executive
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Naples Municipal
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New Smyrna Beach
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North Palm Beach
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North Perry
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Opa Locka
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Orlando Executive
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Ormond Beach
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Tampa Executive
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Venice Municipal
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Whitted
Military
Military airport means an airport that is operated by an armed force of the United States and that is primarily used for military fixed wing aircraft operations, excluding a runway or airstrip that is not immediately adjacent to facilities primarily used for operational control, maintenance and permanent parking of aircraft.
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Avon Park AFR
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Cape Canaveral SFS
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Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater
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Coast Guard Air Station Miami
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Duke Field
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Eglin AFB
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Homestead ARB
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Hurlburt Field
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Jacksonville Air National Guard Base
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NAS Jacksonville
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NAS Key West
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MacDill AFB
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NS Mayport
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Patrick SFB
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NAS Pensacola
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Tyndall AFB
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NAS Whiting Field
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NOLF Choctaw
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NOLF Santa Rosa
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NOLF Saufley
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NOLF Spencer
International Airports (Within 160 miles of Cape Coral)
Southwest Florida International Airport
15.7 miles 30 mins
- 73 united states destinations, 3 Canadian destinations, 1 destination in Cuba, Germany, Puerto Rico and Bahamas
- 21 airlines including cargo airlines
- Chicago, Miami and Fort Lauderdale are its most popular destinations
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Miami International Airport
154 miles 2 hr 34 mins
- Miami International Airport is among the busiest airports in the world.
- 80 airlines
- 150 destinations worldwide
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Fort Lauderdale International Airport
139 miles 2hr 14 mins
- 60 international destinations
- 84 domestic destinations
- 28 airlines
- 300 daily departures
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Palm Beach International Airport
138 miles 2hr 58 mins
- 58 domestic destinations
- 2 international destinations
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Sarasota Bradenton International Airport
89.5 miles 1hr 48 mins
- 1 international destination
Domestic Airports
Naples Airport
41.2 miles 46 mins
- primarily a private airline airport for personal and business jets
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Page Field Airport
7.5 miles 14 mins
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Bibliography
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarasota%E2%80%93Bradenton_International_Airport#2020s_and_late_2010s
https://fortmyersinternationalairport.com/statistics/
https://www.broward.org/Airport/Pages/default.aspx
https://www.broward.org/Airport/Business/about/Pages/Statistics.aspx
https://www.flightconnections.com/flights-from-miami-mia