Things are really taking off at the Greenville Spartanburg International Airport.
Really, it all goes back to Southwest.
When the airline came to Greenville back in 2011, Greenville Spartanburg International Airport’s passenger count increased by nearly 50 percent in the first year alone.
That helped the airport out of a four-year-long slump, in which ticket prices were high and routes were diminished or eliminated altogether, with the number of passengers using the airport down to about 630,000 annually.
Now, however, things are looking up. GSP is coming off a record year in 2018, when 2.3 million passengers flew in or out of the airport.
That comes from sixteen straight months of passenger growth, a spree that likely isn’t about to end in the coming months.
The airport plans to spend $17 million to new parking lots and a garage to accommodate the increased number of passengers.
The current interior infrastructure can support up to 4 million passengers annually, and depending upon how much things continue to grow, that may see some overalls too in the next five years or so.