Miami International Airport also known as Wilcox Field, MIA, and Miami International, is the primary airport serving the South Florida area. The airport is located eight miles (13 km) northwest of Downtown Miami, in unincorporated Miami, Florida, United States. It is located between the cities of Miami, Hialeah, Doral, Miami Springs, the village of Virginia Gardens, and the unincorporated community of Fontainebleau.
The airport is a hub for passenger airlines American Airlines, Executive Airlines under the American Eagle name, Gulfstream International Airlines under the Continental Connection name; cargo airlines, UPS Airlines and FedEx Express; and charter airline Miami Air. Miami International Airport handles passenger and cargo flights to cities throughout the Americas and Europe, as well as the Canary Islands off the African coast, and cargo flights to Asia; it is South Florida's main airport for long-haul international flights.
Miami International Airport is the largest gateway between the United States and Latin America, and is one of the largest aerial hubs in the United States, owing to its proximity to tourist attractions, local economic growth, large local Latin American and European populations, and strategic location to handle connecting traffic between North America, Latin America, and Europe. In the past, it has been a hub for Braniff International Airways, Eastern Air Lines, Air Florida, the original National Airlines, the original Pan Am, United Airlines, and Iberia. Miami International is also the proposed hub of two new start-up airlines, one of which hopes to use the Eastern Airlines name.
In 2009, the airport ranked first in the United States by percentage of international flights and second by volume of international passengers, behind only New York-JFK In 2009, 33,886,025 passengers traveled through the airport making the airport the 25th busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic. The Airport also ranks as the 12th busiest airport in the United States by annual passenger throughput and is the largest airport in the state of Florida, surpassing Orlando by a small margin. The airport also handled more international cargo than any other airport in the United States.
Facts about flying to Miami
It takes approximately 9 hours 10 minutes to fly to Miami from the UK.
The IATA airport code for Miami Airport is MIA. This will appear on your ticket.
The average temperature of Miami in June is 30°C.
Airlines that fly to Miami include AA, British Airways, Continental, Delta, Virgin Atlantic, Iberia, bmi - and you can book them all at discounted prices with us.
