{"id":249054,"date":"2026-04-28T02:17:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249054\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T02:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:17:37","slug":"officials-in-miami-dade-weighing-possibility-of-a-second-commercial-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249054\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials in Miami-Dade weighing possibility of a second commercial airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 27, 2026 at 9:31 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Miami-Dade County is considering building a new major commercial airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 63-page report from the county mayor obtained by Local 10 News says Miami International Airport is reaching airfield capacity, currently at 80% full.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That\u2019s when the FAA recommends adding more space, or there could be more travel delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cCapacity challenges could impact growth, create travel delays, and affect our competitiveness,\u201d said Miami-Dade Commission Chair Anthony Rodriguez. \u201cWe have to act now and plan ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Commissioners have narrowed it down to three options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The first is building a new airport somewhere in the county, while the others are expanding either Miami Executive Airport in southwest Miami-Dade or the Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport into a full-on major commercial airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The county board gave the mayor until early June to report how the county could pay for this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">If it\u2019s approved, it would take 12 to 15 years to expand either of the airports, or at least two decades to build a brand new airport.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Byron Tollefson\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b58c08f2-f400-4245-95df-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Byron Tollefson<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Byron Tollefson joined Local 10 News as a reporter in July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 27, 2026 at 9:31 PM MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Miami-Dade County is considering building a new major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-249054","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\/249054","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=249054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}