Southwest Florida International Airport opened in May 1983. The original master plan projected that the airport would reach its capacity of 3 million passengers by 1995, but that number actually was reached in 1988 - seven years earlier than predicted.
It's hard to imagine this was Ft. Myers...just 30 years ago. They've come a long way.
OK, RSW opened in 1983, so they broke ground, say like 1980, final design and contracts signed...say 1979. So the planning of this was probably started like 1975, 1976? FMY was being served only by National and the newly arrived Eastern (Dec 75) In fact, FMY was the last airport that EA went to, a whole 14 years after arriving in SRQ just up the coast. I guess these planners were real visionaries.
KarlB737 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 2927 posts, RR: 9 Reply 2, posted (7 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 1862 times:
727LOVER From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 5722 posts, RR: 20 Reply 3, posted (7 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 1825 times:
WHAT???? GREAT! Don't I look like a fool. I don't see that on the airport website.
Isitsafenow From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4984 posts, RR: 26 Reply 4, posted (7 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 1798 times:
727LOVER...its ok to error. That's why there is an eraser at the end of a pencil.
The educated guess is late September, another 60 days or so but thats a guess.
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I don't see that on the airport website.
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