Here’s the top 3 (in size) airports in Florida.
1: Southwest Florida International Airport is on 13,555 acres.
2: Orlando International Airport is on 12,264 acres
3: Jacksonville International Airport is on 7,911 acres.
Some quick math, Southwest Florida airport is over 21 square miles! How about another crazy stat: What would happen if they closed the airport, parceled out the land, and sold it to build condos? On the low end, undeveloped land in that area is going for roughly $50,000 an acre. That would put the value of the land alone at $677,750,000. That’s $677 MILLION. And we all know it’s worth even more than that. But that 13,555 acres doesn’t just make our Southwest Florida Airport the biggest airport in Florida, it’s one of the biggest in the whole country!
