Tallahassee International Airport

Tallahassee International Airport, code TLH, is the capital's commercial airport, and the City of Tallahassee owns, operates and manages it.

The City of Tallahassee says TLH is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems and is designated a Non-hub Primary Commercial Service Airport by the FAA. Its airport home page gives the address as 3300 Capital Circle SW, Tallahassee, FL 32310, phone 850-891-7800, and introduces David Pollard as director of the City of Tallahassee's Aviation Department, which provides administrative oversight of TLH.

The FAA airport record for TLH, effective October 1 to October 29, 2026, places the field 4 miles southwest of Tallahassee at an elevation of 83.1 feet, lists the City of Tallahassee as owner and David Pollard as manager, and shows a control tower with hours of 0600 to 2300 and Class C approach frequencies. By the city's own figures the airport is about five miles from Interstate 10, a six-mile drive from downtown Tallahassee and the Florida State Capitol, and within five miles of Florida State University, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee State College and Lively Technical College.

TLH has two non-intersecting runways on a 2,485-acre site, the longer one 8,000 feet.

The city airport page describes two all-weather non-intersecting runways, full-length parallel taxiways, three general aviation aprons, a commercial aircraft apron and a cargo apron with all-weather, 24-hour operations, and says TLH obtained its FAA Part 139 certification in May 1973 and is inspected by the FAA every year to keep it current.

Tallahassee's general aviation side has its own tenants. The city general aviation page lists Aero Center Tallahassee, a full-service fixed base operator on the North Apron at 3240 Capital Circle SW, and Million Air Tallahassee at 3254 Capital Circle SW, with Flightline Group, headquartered in Tallahassee, a regional aviation sales and service company at 3256 Capital Circle SW. Florida State University's own history notes that its West Campus was a former Army Air Base three miles west of the main campus, an earlier chapter of Tallahassee aviation.

The International Processing Facility is a terminal expansion at TLH with a U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry, set to open in 2026.

The City of Tallahassee's International Processing Facility page describes a $35 million project with a 40,000-square-foot terminal expansion, a CBP-approved international port of entry and a Federal Inspection Services facility designed to inspect and clear both arriving international passengers and cargo, built to CBP standards for up to 200 passengers per hour. The city's airport home page still calls it a multi-year, $28 million project, so the two city pages give different costs; the $35 million figure is on the facility's own page.

Until the hall opens, the FAA record still lists TLH as not a landing rights airport and not an airport of entry. A Foreign Trade Zone under CBP oversight comes with the customs hall: the city says the zone will serve up to eleven surrounding counties from Interstate 75 to Port St. Joe, and projects more than 1,600 jobs over ten years and over $300 million in annual economic impact once it reaches full maturity in 2036.

Three airlines serve Tallahassee: American Airlines, Breeze Airways and Delta Air Lines, with nonstop flights to seven destinations.

The city airport page lists those three carriers along with four affiliates, Endeavor Air, Envoy Air, Piedmont Airlines and PSA Airlines, and names the seven nonstop destinations as Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas-Fort Worth, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Raleigh-Durham and Washington, D.C. (DCA). It reports 938,831 total passengers for the 12-month period ended August 2025 and ranks TLH 146 among more than 500 commercial service airports in the calendar year 2021 ranking.

Breeze is the newest carrier. The airport home page announces that Breeze Airways added two nonstop routes from TLH to Fort Lauderdale and Raleigh-Durham, the two Breeze cities on the destination list.

The City of Tallahassee treats TLH as an economic development asset, putting its annual regional economic impact at $859 million.

The city airport page says that impact is on track to reach $1 billion and calls TLH the Northwest Florida region's primary cargo facility. Plans are underway to expand the air cargo apron, sharing apron access with FedEx, with about ten acres of apron space in future plans and an upgraded legacy cargo facility for cross-border and e-commerce packages.

Proximity to the research district is part of the pitch. The same page notes that TLH is only three miles from Tallahassee's Innovation Park, which has more than 17 buildings and 30 organizations and is home to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, and that Danfoss Turbocor chose Tallahassee for its North American headquarters in 2011 and expanded its operations there in 2024.

A 2026 state transportation bill designates the airport as the Bobby Bowden Tallahassee International Airport.

The enrolled text of SB 628 designates the airport located at 3300 Capital Circle Southwest in Tallahassee as the Bobby Bowden Tallahassee International Airport. The Florida Senate bill history records the Senate passing the amended bill 34 to 3 and later 31 to 4, the bill presented to the Governor on April 14, 2026, and approved by the Governor on July 1, 2026, as Chapter No. 2026-182, effective July 1, 2026. The FAA record effective October 1, 2026, still uses the name Tallahassee Intl.

Oversight tightened in the same period. The city disclosure page says Florida Statute 332.0075 became effective July 1, 2025, and requires the Auditor General to audit commercial airports for compliance with financial disclosure, purchasing, contracting and ethics requirements; the page posts approved TLH airport budgets for FY 2021 through FY 2027. The current long-range plan is the 2019 Updated Master Plan and Airport Layout Plan, which followed the 2006 Updated Master Plan.

Last verified: October 18, 2026, against the City of Tallahassee airport, International Processing Facility, general aviation, FS 332.0075 and master plan pages, the FAA airport record, and the Florida Senate history and enrolled text of SB 628.