Charleston airport predicts passenger growth will double to almost 8 million by 2028
More tourists, business travelers and new residents will nearly double the existing number of passengers at Charleston International to almost 8 million by 2028.
That’s the projection laid out Monday by Doug Boston, the finance director of Charleston County Aviation Authority, which oversees the state’s busiest airport.
The number of people flying out of Charleston near the end of the next decade is forecast to swell to more than 3.9 million from about 2.1 million last year. Doubling those figures to account for a roughly equal number of arriving ticket holders brings the projection to nearly 8 million passengers by the late 2020s.
