{"id":45140,"date":"2025-11-26T11:53:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/45140\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:53:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:53:25","slug":"lvias-passenger-traffic-last-month-ranks-among-the-best-octobers-ever-at-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/45140\/","title":{"rendered":"LVIA\u2019s passenger traffic last month \u2018ranks among the best Octobers\u2019 ever at airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BZTOP2C4UZBTLG3MIUWXY6HLTU\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyabe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.flyabe.com\/\">Lehigh Valley International Airport<\/a> logged 93,240 passengers in October, marking a 13% increase from the same month in 2024 when 82,514 travelers used the facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HDFW64JB7JEADMRE6P7PRNGHFE\">\u201cThis ranks among the best Octobers regarding activity on record at ABE. We continue to prepare for the holiday rush over the next two months and encourage travelers to give themselves extra time and pack their patience,\u201d said Thomas R. Stoudt, executive director of the Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IQEQYJONOVETHFREKDAY4TOFWQ\">The growth varied among carriers. Allegiant saw the largest jump at 24.7%, while Delta increased 9.9%. United declined 3.4% and American dropped 4.8%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XTLYAIJUXJHT5BQ7A3QQCC2OP4\">The airport recently added nonstop service to Fort Myers, Florida, aboard Allegiant Air on Nov. 13. Flights operate on Thursdays and Sundays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"B77ZRLJ3GRGOJFT6H5HTZLTFHU\">Air cargo also increased, with 29,411,579 pounds processed through the airport in October, up 20.8% from 24,345,021 pounds in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GHEX4GVJ4REKVKPCLOJARMP7XQ\">Generative AI was used to draft this story, based on data provided by Lehigh Valley International Airport. It was reviewed and edited by lehighvalleylive.com staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley International Airport logged 93,240 passengers in October, marking a 13% increase from the same month in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,3482],"class_list":{"0":"post-45140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-chris-shipley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45140","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=45140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}