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Florida International Airport

Postby brantmacga » Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:55 pm

Anyone else heard of this? Rumor has it that a new airport is being built south of Tampa, FL, around Naples that will be the world's largest airport. They say it will be a hub to take most of the international traffic from Miami and Tampa. Apparently, 100k acres has been purchased for this project.
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Re: Florida International Airport

Postby Citationpilot » Sat Dec 31, 2005 11:02 pm

Wasn't that idea behind Dade-Collier which turned out to be a major failure? I think they even called it the Florida International Airport at one point.

http://airnav.com/airport/KTNT

If they bought 100k arces that means the airport will be in the middle of no where, I can't imagine many airlines would be interested in that, but I've been wrong before.
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Re: Florida International Airport

Postby brantmacga » Sun Jan 01, 2006 10:39 am

Dade-Collier was built to handle U.S. SST traffic into Miami; but we never built the plane. It was built in the middle of nowhere so no one would complain about sonic booms.
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Re: Florida International Airport

Postby Icelandair Pilot » Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:44 am

Once the airport is built.. people will buy land and build everything..

Fast-Food, Hotels, Motels, Rent-a-cars, golf courses, houses. EVERYTHING will move around there.
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