{"id":214214,"date":"2026-04-01T07:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214214\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:28:09","slug":"miami-international-airport-adding-on-to-107-nonstop-destinations-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214214\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami International Airport adding on to 107 nonstop destinations abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\tWritten by Kelly Sanchez<\/a> on April 1, 2026<\/p>\n

\"www.miamitodaynews.com\"\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Miami International Airport is exploring the addition of new cargo flights and has generated new passenger flights, with more expected to come this year.<\/p>\n

As of March, 107 of 190 total nonstop destinations are international. The airport has added new direct routes to Ottawa; Bimini, Bahamas; and Milan so far this year and flights to Cordoba, Argentina, as well as Asuncion, Paraguay, are expected to start in June.<\/p>\n

Options being explored include routes to Montevideo, Uruguay, and Brussels, Belgium. Miami International is also still looking at Eastern European and Middle Eastern routes. Aviation Director Ralph Cuti\u00e9 said the airport continues to pursue a direct route to Tokyo.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still working on that, and that\u2019s moving along nicely,\u201d he said about service between Miami and Tokyo. \u201cWe feel fairly confident that that\u2019s going to happen. We\u2019re just not sure when. It could be probably [in the] next couple of years. That\u2019s how it\u2019s looking because \u2026 they\u2019re in the process of purchasing aircraft and getting their business case done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, the airport is working on direct connections to Shanghai and Singapore.<\/p>\n

Cargo shipments at MIA were up by 13.6% to nearly 3.5 million tons in 2025, marking six consecutive years of record-breaking growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re able to make this route, this direct cargo route to China work \u2026 that will really, really bump up even more our cargo numbers,\u201d Mr. Cuti\u00e9 said, \u201cso that\u2019ll increase our ranking in the cargo world both domestically and internationally\u2026 Those are some of the international routes that we\u2019re exploring.\u201d<\/p>\n

The airport ended last year with 55,314,661 total passengers, 30,464,597 of them domestic and 24,850,064 international.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you remember, back in 2024, we had nearly 56 million passengers, which is our best year ever,\u201d he said. \u201cSo last year we were about 1% under 2024, but the good news is we fared better than most \u2013 just about every other airport around the country. I mean, nationwide, the average downturn was a little over 2% and we hung pretty solid at 1%, so we were really about three or four days\u2019 worth of passenger traffic away from breaking our 2024 record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Cuti\u00e9 added that it\u2019s not something he\u2019s \u201creally concerned about\u201d because he knows \u201cthat\u2019ll bounce back,\u201d citing factors that impacted passenger traffic, including weather events and the federal government shutdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe fared really pretty well when compared to our competitors, and I think that speaks to our market, Latin American and Caribbean market, and those types of things,\u201d he said. \u201cSo we\u2019re very blessed, I think, to be where we are, not just because of geographical location but just as far as our operation and how efficient we are. I think we did pretty well, and hopefully this year we\u2019ll continue to do well.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for growth in air links around the globe, \u201cthey\u2019re actively working on probably more than 20, 30 routes and out of those, if we get eight or nine, we will bump up,\u201d Mr. Cuti\u00e9 continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, I think we have 190 destinations in total, and we have nearly 100 airlines flying with us, which is the most of any airport in the country,\u201d he said. \u201cSo we add just those eight or nine additional routes this year, that\u2019ll bump us up over 100 as far as the number of airlines, and it\u2019ll increase our routes to probably close to 200 or right around there, so on the international side, it\u2019s a really bright future, I think, both on the cargo side and the passenger side for us. So we\u2019re looking forward to 2026, and having a nice bounce-back from last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

He later said the airport is expecting a bump in passenger traffic due to the FIFA World Cup matches being hosted in Miami, with 98,000 flights scheduled.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re also expecting a big bump in traffic now come June when the World Cup comes,\u201d Mr. Cuti\u00e9 said. \u201cWe\u2019re looking at probably an additional close to a million passengers total coming through our airport, so that\u2019ll help with our numbers\u2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cFIFA is going to be big for us here, because between the passengers coming in international and then from there, if their teams continue to win, they\u2019ll be traveling to other domestic destinations around the country, the other host cities, and then ultimately, they\u2019ll end up flying back here for the semi-final games, so that\u2019s multiple traffic back and forth, which is really going to help with our numbers\u2026 We\u2019re estimating between 900,000 to an additional million passengers just during that three-week period, plus or minus, for the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Written by Kelly Sanchez on April 1, 2026 Advertisement Miami International Airport is exploring the addition of new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-214214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214214","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=214214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}