Piedmont Triad International Airport (Greensboro)

GSO has no regularly scheduled passenger service outside the United States, but it handled about 350 international flights in the latest year described by the airport.

• The airport is considered international because it has U.S. Customs and Border Protection capability for passenger and cargo flights.
• International activity includes diverted passenger flights, charters, cargo flights and private jets rather than regularly scheduled international airline service.
• Scheduled passenger routes from GSO connect to U.S. destinations, including major domestic hubs.
• Breeze Airways began nonstop service from GSO to Hartford and Orlando on 6 June 2025, adding another domestic carrier to the airport’s passenger network.

Note: International designation reflects customs capability rather than regularly scheduled international passenger service.

Delta led GSO passenger traffic in the March 2025–February 2026 Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reporting period with 560,000 passengers and a 27.75% share.

• American Airlines carried 265,000 passengers, equal to a 13.16% share.
• Envoy Air, Republic Airline and Piedmont each accounted for about 10%–11% of reported passenger traffic.
• Other carriers together carried 557,000 passengers, representing 27.61% of the total.
• Breeze Airways launched GSO service within the current reporting period and began flights to Hartford and Orlando on 6 June 2025.

Note: BTS carrier-share figures measure passenger traffic, not flight departures.

October was GSO’s busiest month in 2025, with 202,391 total passengers.

• Late spring and summer remained strong, with May through August each above 181,000 total passengers.
• February was the slowest month of 2025, with 129,067 total passengers.
• January through March 2026 totaled 417,874 passengers, with March reaching 157,210 passengers.

Note: Monthly figures use total passengers, meaning enplanements plus deplanements.

GSO’s latest completed operating-revenue budget was $38.88 million in fiscal 2025, while fiscal 2026 is budgeted at $42.13 million as a proposed, not-yet-complete year.

• The available operating-revenue series starts with fiscal 2017, when GSO reported $25.91 million in revised budget operating revenue.
• Operating revenue rose modestly from $25.91 million in fiscal 2017 to $26.42 million in fiscal 2018.
• Pre-pandemic operating revenue increased to $27.98 million in fiscal 2019 and $30.55 million in fiscal 2020.
• The pandemic-era fiscal 2021 budget reduced operating revenue to $21.6 million, down 29.3% from fiscal 2020.
• Post-pandemic budgets recovered steadily, rising from $24.54 million in fiscal 2022 to $38.88 million in fiscal 2025.
• The proposed fiscal 2026 budget would increase operating revenue to $42.13 million, up 8.3% from the fiscal 2025 revised budget.

Note: GSO’s fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30. Fiscal 2026 covers July 2025 through June 2026, so its figure is a proposed budget amount rather than a completed-year result.*

GSO’s newest air-traffic-control tower became operational in 2022, and major airfield and aerospace projects continued through 2025.

• The FAA’s new 180-foot air-traffic-control tower became operational in late September 2022.
• Runway 5L/23R reopened by the end of October 2024, with the related crossfield taxiway project completed by the end of 2024.
• The terminal roof project reached about 80% completion in October 2024, with completion finalized in November 2024.
• Boom Supersonic’s Overture Superfactory project at GSO is planned to create 1,761 jobs through 2030 and bring more than $500 million in investment.
• JetZero announced in 2025 that it would establish its first U.S. manufacturing facility at GSO, bringing more than 14,500 jobs over time and breaking ground in 2026.
• Taxiway D work advanced in 2025, with Phase 1 paving completed by September and Phase 2 paving between Connector D2 and Taxiway H was completed in December.

Note: Project timing reflects the latest cited public update for each project.

JetZero announced a GSO manufacturing campus for the Z4, an all-wing jet designed for up to 50% better fuel efficiency and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) compatibility in 2025.

• JetZero says the Z4 is engineered to lower fuel burn and emissions while remaining compatible with existing airport infrastructure and SAF.
• JetZero’s GSO facility is part of a broader aerospace manufacturing project expected to bring more than 14,500 jobs over time.
• Boom Supersonic’s GSO project supports production of Overture, which the airport describes as a sustainable supersonic aircraft.
• GSO’s sustainability-related activity is closely tied to aerospace tenants developing more efficient aircraft and manufacturing technologies.

Note: SAF is a lower-carbon aviation fuel category used by compatible aircraft.

Official National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) records verify two notable GSO-linked aviation incidents from 1996 and 2000.

• On 22 December 1996, an Airborne Express DC-8-63F functional evaluation flight that originated from GSO crashed near Narrows, Virginia, with 6 fatalities.
• On 8 August 2000, AirTran Airways Flight 913, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, made an emergency landing at GSO after in-flight fire and smoke in the cockpit.
• The 2000 AirTran emergency evacuation resulted in 13 minor injuries and 50 people with no injuries.

Note: Safety records distinguish between incidents at the airport and flights that departed GSO but crashed elsewhere.