TAMPA -- Tampa International Airport is scheduled to renovate the baggage claim system on the main terminal's ground floor by Christmas 2009, a project that will expand baggage pickup space by 50 percent. The Hillsborough County Aviation Authority this morning approved a resolution for Mathews Construction of Tampa Inc. to complete the design and procure some construction items for the $22.3 million project. ...more

December 11, 2008

Both the rate of on-time arrivals and departures of flights at Tampa International Airport improved in October compared with a year ago, data released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation showed. ...more

December 10, 2008

Southwest Airlines on May 9 will trim one daily round-trip flight between Tampa and four destinations - Fort Lauderdale; Hartford, Conn.; Indianapolis; and Providence, R.I. - but it will maintain nonstop service between Tampa and those cities in a systemwide reduction of flights. ...more

December 10, 2008

TAMPA Southwest Airlines on May 9 will trim one daily round-trip flight between Tampa and four destinations -- Fort Lauderdale; Hartford, Conn.; Indianapolis; and Providence, R.I. -- but will maintain nonstop service between Tampa and those destinations in a systemwide reduction of flights. Tampa International Airport's busiest carrier will serve Fort Lauderdale with eight daily flights, Providence with two and Hartford and Indianapolis with one each on schedules between May 9 and June 26, the airline announced today. ...more

December 9, 2008

Southwest Airlines intends to buy seven daily round-trip takeoff and landing slots at LaGuardia Airport from bankrupt ATA Airlines, which would allow it to serve the New York airport closest to Manhattan next year. ...more

November 20, 2008

Most of us in Sun City Center are retired, right? We should be taking it easy, right? At our age we should have learned to be courteous and kind to each other, right? Well, something's not working quite right. I've only been flipped a "splendid digit" twice in my life, and both times were in our town. Once was by a gentleman who didn't like it that I had to screech my brakes to avoid hitting him as he turned his golf cart left in front of me from the right lane. The other time was by, pardon the expression, a little old lady. ...more

November 12, 2008

Allegiant Air is scrapping its flights from St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport to Lansing, Mich., as of Feb. 4 and going to Grand Rapids, Mich., instead. The flights to Lansing from the Pinellas County airport are scheduled to resume Saturday, after a seasonal interruption. ...more

November 10, 2008

Allegiant Air will relocate its flights serving St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport and Lansing, Mich., which are scheduled to resume Saturday after a seasonal interruption, to Grand Rapids, Mich., effective Feb. 4. ...more

November 10, 2008

Southwest Airlines will add another daily nonstop flight to six destinations it serves from Tampa International Airport effective March 8: Baltimore; Columbus, Ohio; Hartford, Conn.; Nashville, Tenn.; Philadelphia; and Providence, R.I. ...more

November 7, 2008

Tampa International Airport's plan for a $950 million North Terminal likely will be delayed from October 2015 until sometime from 2018 to 2020 as the poor economy slows air travel projections, airport director Louis Miller said Thursday. ...more

November 7, 2008