The allure of Martha’s Vineyard in the summer is attracting more and more travelers by air, with 2025 continuing the trends of ballooning passengers counts over the last five years at the Island’s airport.
Summer for local businesses was a mixed bag, with July a bit slow and August on fire.
Island tourism officials raised the prospect of better courting international visitors at a new tourism conference held in Edgartown this week.
Numbers published in various publications have been as high as 200,000. To try and get a more accurate take on the elusive figure, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission went to work.
About 64,000 people have taken commercial flights at the airport in the first eight months of 2023 — a figure that is already higher than the total annual commercial passengers for three of the past five years.
Harbor reservations are at an all-time high, ferries have robust bookings and the airport is bracing for its annual onslaught of private and commercial planes.