The Mayor of Miami-Dade County announces the record growth of Mia in 2024

Today the mayor of Miami-Dade County, Daniella Levine Cava, district official, director and CEO of Miami International Airport and CEO Ralph Cutié, Mia Partners, and his committed workforce came together to celebrate a landmark for the airport.

The event raised record growth and freight growth in 2024, significant progress in the future modernization of $ 9 billion in the action plan and the persistent success of the I on the MIA customer service program underdress a joint commitment to the operational efficiency and the increase in customer experience.

The mayor of Miami-Dade County, Daniella Levine Cava, said: “Miami International Airport continues to increase, break records, set the standard for excellent aviation and strengthen our position as a leader in international trade and tourism.

“Thanks to the hard work and the commitment of Director Cutie, our airport partners and the entire MIA workforce, Mia reached an all-time high in the highs last year and at the same time paved the way for a number of transformative improvement projects, flight in 2025.”

In 2024, Mia achieved new annual records of almost 56 million passengers and 3 million tons of freight, which gave the airport three consecutive recutation years in passenger traffic and five record years in the freight volume in a row.

Passenger traffic rose by 6.8% in 2024, with international trips rose by 8.4% to 25.2 million passengers and domestic driving rose by 5.6% to 30.8 million passengers.

In addition, Mia is still the fastest growing mega airport (over 33 million passengers) in the United States since pandemic, and according to airports Council International-North America last year rose by 24% last year compared to 2019.

In order to support its dynamic growth, the future modernization of the MIA in action plan invests $ 9 billion in important capital improvements and the modernization of the outdated infrastructure such as transport units (escalators, lifts, sidewalks), toilets and on-board bridges.

The previous highlights include the renovation of 33 transport units, 48 ​​toilets and 32 on -board bridges, two of which are energy -efficient glass bridges.

Currently, 95% of the 616 Mia transport units are in operation, compared to 85% in the previous year. Thirty transport units are planned for modernization in 2025.

Mia's $ 136 million, 2,240 room flamingo garrison expansion that break the ground in early 2024, will be planned by the end of 2025.

The new Westin Mia Hotel with 546 rooms of $ 350 million will break the ground at the entrance to Mia this summer and will be completed in 2027.

A contract recommendation for a new bankruptcy of $ 750 million, the first terminal expansion of the airport since 2012, is on the right track this year to review the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioner.

If approved in 2025, the three-step expansion would add six new passenger goals to the southern terminal of Mia after completion in 2029.

The I am Mia program was launched in early 2024 by Mayor Cava to supplement Mia's modernization efforts, and has filled 90 out of 135 newly created Lightning crew positions that are commissioned to combat maintenance problems, the immediate Need attention. Lightning Crew teams complete an average of 23 jobs every day.