{"id":188720,"date":"2026-03-12T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188720\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:24:10","slug":"mco-anticipates-record-2026-spring-break-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188720\/","title":{"rendered":"MCO anticipates record 2026 spring break travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando International Airport anticipates record 2026 spring break travel<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768911270_880_wesh.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WESH logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 10:10 AM EDT Mar 12, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThousands of visitors will flock to Orlando as spring break kicks off.The Orlando International Airport said that, in total, more than 7.4 million passengers are expected. This will mark an 8% increase over 2025, which was also a record year.MCO said around 53,000 flights will operate into and out of the airport during this time.The busiest day is expected to be Sunday, March 15, with an estimated 212,000 travelers at MCO.Projected spring break 2026 passenger countsAirport officials advised travelers to arrive at the airport 3 hours before their flight and be at the security checkpoint 2 hours before departure.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of visitors will flock to Orlando as spring break kicks off.<\/p>\n<p>The Orlando International Airport said that, in total, more than 7.4 million passengers are expected. This will mark an 8% increase over 2025, which was also a record year.<\/p>\n<p>MCO said around 53,000 flights will operate into and out of the airport during this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text\">The busiest day is expected to be Sunday, March 15, with an estimated 212,000 travelers at MCO.<\/p>\n<p>Projected spring break 2026 passenger counts<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"projected peak spring break 2026 passenger counts\" title=\"Projected Peak Spring Break 2026 Passenger Counts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/spring-break-projection-counts-graphi-cart-2026-03-11-69b2c68cf34d7.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tOrlando International Airport\t<\/p>\n<p>Airport officials advised travelers to arrive at the airport 3 hours before their flight and be at the security checkpoint 2 hours before departure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando International Airport anticipates record 2026 spring break travel Updated: 10:10 AM EDT Mar 12, 2026 Editorial Standards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6731,20334,2339,13204,6205,139,141,3847,140,88397,18598,88398,40938,5125,988,2393,18183,19436],"class_list":["post-188720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-airport","tag-flight","tag-hour","tag-march","tag-mco","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-international-airport","tag-orlando-news","tag-passenger-countsairport-official","tag-record","tag-security-checkpoint","tag-spring-break-travel","tag-sunday","tag-thousand","tag-time","tag-traveler","tag-visitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188720","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=188720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}