{"id":67637,"date":"2025-12-22T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67637\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T16:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:45:09","slug":"lehigh-valley-international-airport-reports-busiest-november-in-21-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67637\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley International Airport reports busiest November in 21 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/tsa.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transportation Security Administration<\/a> said the last day of November was the busiest day in its history, as it processed more than 3.1 million passengers nationwide returning home from the long Thanksgiving weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Valley International Airport certainly contributed to that record. It reported that 86,801 passengers used the airport in Hanover Township, Lehigh County in November, an 8.8% increase over the year and the highest activity for that month since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTravel industry forecasts pointed to one of the busiest holiday seasons on record at airports nationwide,\u201d said Tom Stoudt, executive director of the Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority. \u201cWe\u2019ve experienced this firsthand with the steady rise in passenger activity at ABE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the airlines serving LVIA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/11\/13\/lehigh-valley-airport-anniversary-allegiant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allegiant jumped 20.5%<\/a> and American Airlines increased 6.5%. Meanwhile, Delta declined 3.9% and United dropped 23.3%.<\/p>\n<p>With the holiday season picking up, LVIA said it processed more than 22 million pounds of air cargo during November, a 4.4% increase from the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Transportation Security Administration said the last day of November was the busiest day in its history, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2121,433,182,139,28,432,2155],"class_list":{"0":"post-67637","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-hanover-township","12":"tag-lehigh-county","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-top-stories-tmc","17":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67637","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=67637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}