{"id":181655,"date":"2026-03-07T03:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181655\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:51:15","slug":"orlando-airport-wins-top-honor-at-routes-americas-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181655\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Airport Wins Top Honor at Routes Americas 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Orlando International Airport was named the Overall Winner at the Routes Americas 2026 Awards, marking the first time the airport has received the top honor. The recognition was announced during the regional industry event in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The airport also earned the top honor in the facilities serving more than 20 million passengers category. The passenger total for 2025 rose 14% over 2019 levels, and the airport added 45 new and expanded routes that year. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/first-direct-flight-tokyo-florida-arrives-orlando-international-airport\/CRWMPO3PWFEHFL6QAHMU6PROPE\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/first-direct-flight-tokyo-florida-arrives-orlando-international-airport\/CRWMPO3PWFEHFL6QAHMU6PROPE\/\">First direct flight from Tokyo to Florida arrives at Orlando International Airport<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">These additions included international service to destinations such as Hamilton, Canada; Lima, Peru; Paris, France; Munich, Germany and Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The airport currently serves more than 170 nonstop destinations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772855475_983_APP DOWNLOAD LOCAL_1541693885678.jpg_13622062_ver1.0.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM WFTV CHANNEL 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Orlando International Airport was named the Overall Winner at the Routes Americas 2026 Awards, marking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6205,139,141,140,10258],"class_list":["post-181655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-mco","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-plane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}