{"id":266270,"date":"2026-08-16T06:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266270\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T06:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:02:38","slug":"pittsburgh-international-airport-traffic-slips-as-one-carriers-exit-leaves-a-void-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266270\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh International Airport traffic slips as one carrier\u2019s exit leaves a void \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Passenger traffic at Pittsburgh International Airport fell in the first six months of 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/07\/03\/pittsburgh-international-airport-count-passenger.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">partly due to Spirit Airlines\u2019 demise and higher fuel prices industrywide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">There were 4.67 million passengers either taking off or landing at PIT through June 30, according to data from the Allegheny County Airport Authority. That\u2019s down 1.1% from 4.7 million through June 30, 2025, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/organization\/spirit-airlines\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spirit Airlines<\/a> was still flying. Domestic passenger traffic dipped 3% to 877,898 in June, down 3% from June 2025. But international passenger traffic rose 17.1% to 34,080 in June thanks to the first full month of Aer Lingus\u2019 Dublin-Pittsburgh service as well as Icelandair and British Airways continuing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Spirit had the sharpest percentage drop among the airlines serving Pittsburgh, falling from 164,331 passengers enplaned from January to June 2025 to 57,210 during the same time this year. The bankrupt airline stopped flying May 1, leaving passengers and two Airbus A320 aircraft temporarily stranded at PIT. But Spirit\u2019s financial woes had led to sharp cuts in service even before the end; it was the fifth-biggest airline by market share at PIT in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/08\/12\/spirit-airlines-pit-traffic-2026.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/08\/12\/spirit-airlines-pit-traffic-2026.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passenger traffic at Pittsburgh International Airport fell in the first six months of 2026, partly due to Spirit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-266270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}