Currently, there are two airports in the Miami metropolitan area ranked in the top 20 in the United States by number of passengers.
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New York is the only other metropolitan area with two airports in the top 20.
The milestone was reached thanks to another strong year of growth at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. In 2017, the passenger count in FLL was 32.5M, up 11.3% from 2016. For the year, the airport ranked as the 19th busiest nationally, ahead of LaGuardia and Philadelphia.
MIA, which broke a record in 2016, had 44 million passengers for the year, down 1.15% from the previous year.
Both airports achieved their top 20 ranking despite Hurricane Irma, which caused a sharp drop in passenger counts during September.
Strong growth is expected again this year in FLL, with a projected seat count of up to 8.5% for the first six months of the year.
Source: https://www.thenextmiami.com/