The tragic crash involving a US Army helicopter and United Airlines plane in Washington DC is raising questions about the safety of military training exercises near civilian airports, including here in Jacksonville.

JIA officials announced Wednesday that JIA broke records again as more than 7.6 million travelers passed through the airport in 2024. That’s up from the 7.45 million passengers who used the airport in 2023. The 2024 figure is a 2.4% increase over the 2023 number which also was the record for visitors at the time.

Jacksonville International Airport had its busiest year in 2024, breaking its record in passenger traffic with more than 7.6 million passengers flying through the airport, according to a news release.

More than 7.6 million passengers use the airport, a 2.8% increase over 2023, the previous top year for traffic.

Jacksonville International Airport is on track to reopen at noon today after last night's winter storm of snow and ice. The airport closed because it "does not have the ability to remove accumulated snow and ice on the runways.

Jacksonville International Airport will close Tuesday night as severe winter weather moves in, an airport spokesperson said.

For the first time in more than a third of a century, Jacksonville International Airport recorded measurable snow on Wednesday.

Just how much snow & freezing rain fell in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia? A look inside the numbers from the Jacksonville-area winter storm.

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Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has been closed until at least 11 a.m. Thursday. Several flights out of Florida have already been canceled.

Dangerous below-freezing temperatures with even colder wind chills were also expected to last over much of the week in the region.

A powerful and rare winter storm swept across the South on Tuesday, bringing the first-ever Blizzard Warning to the Gulf Coast and blasting communities from Texas to Florida to the Carolinas with record-shattering snow that snarled travel and brought daily life to a halt.