Fort Lauderdale Flight Schedules

The Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport does an excellent job of providing quality service to the sixteen million passengers who annually cross its portals.

The Greater Fort Lauderdale area is thriving and growing at a pace almost unheard of in this stagnant economy. High tech industries and the entertainment business, as well as a strong tourist trade and shipping lanes insure a steady growth to the area for years to come. With perceptive forward thinking, the area's commerce leaders are contemplating growth and planning on development and expansion to accommodate it. Included in this thinking is, of course, the airport, for its streamlined service could not bear up under the huge increase in traffic that is sure to come in the next fifteen to twenty years. In response to this outlook, development orders for a twenty-year program were approved in 1997 by the cities of Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, and Broward County.

The Florida Department of Community Affairs and the South Florida Regional Planning Council has answered with its own review and approval of the program. The first phase, consisting of a new, seven-story, 4,900 space parking garage was completed in 1999; the project was both ahead of schedule and under budget, and is already being enjoyed by airport patrons. The future of the airport, like Fort Lauderdale, is bright, and the development plans include an additional eighteen gates to be added to Terminal 1, on concourses B and C.

The airfield itself will be altered to accommodate additional airplanes, and the planning process for these changes to the airfield is currently underway, with construction scheduled to begin in the next few years. Other parts of the development plan are already afoot, with construction being done on a multi-level consolidated Rental Car Facility, which will serve as a combined public parking and rental car garage, which is on schedule and should be completed in 2005. The development costs are expected to be more than $1 billion, but are funded from Federal and State grants, the Passenger Facility Charge and Airport Bond Revenues, with no input from property or general tax revenues. Thus, the airport will respond to its community's growth, expanding gracefully in concert with its demands.