Philadelphia International Airport is offering up to $4 million in incentives, an 80 percent increase, starting July 1 to encourage airlines to offer more international routes to passengers, writes Emma Dooling for Philadelphia Business Journal.
The Airport Air Service Incentive Program offers waived fees and marketing funds to airlines.
PHL aims to expand international services into seven key global regions.
It will offer incentives to an airline that creates a year-round, non-stop service to Asia, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, Central America, and South America.
The airport offers routes to several destinations in Europe and the Caribbean, but its service to these destinations is limited.
“Those are big regions of the world where we think Philadelphia can support service into that region,” said Kate Sullivan, PHL’s chief commercial officer.
These latest incentives will be in effect until sometime in 2027.
Specific incentives include waiving 100 percent of the activity fees that PHL would typically charge an airline in the first two years of a new route. That includes up to $500,000 in marketing funds to promote the new destination and inclusion in PHL’s own marketing efforts.
PHL also has incentives for new routes in the U.S. and Canada.
Read about the impact existing incentives have already had in the Philadelphia Business Journal.
