Pittsburgh Air Travel Has Best Year in Nearly Two Decades
PIT sets new local traffic record, sees significant boost in international travel
By Evan Dougherty
Published January 17, 2025
Read Time: 4 mins
Holiday traffic pushed Pittsburgh International Airport to its highest yearly passenger total in almost two decades as December traffic rose 5.1 percent from last year, boosted by a late Thanksgiving travel season and Christmas and New Year surges.
December’s traffic pushed PIT to 9.95 million total passengers for 2024, surpassing 2019’s figure of 9.8 million by over 166,000 passengers, or 8.1 percent, marking the first time the airport’s annual traffic surpassed pre-pandemic levels. It’s also the highest yearly total for PIT since 2006 when 10 million annual passengers flew through the airport and US Airways was still the dominant airline.
A record number of Pittsburghers traveled through PIT as over 9.7 million travelers started and ended their trips in Pittsburgh last year. It’s the highest origin-and-destination (O&D) figure – non-connecting passengers – in the