Airports, which had suspended operations ahead of Milton’s destruction, reopened on Friday. Tampa International Airport (TPA) waived off its first flight on Friday morning after a three day closure, but said “extreme wind gusts and heavy rainfall from the Category 3 storm impacted several areas of the airport campus that will need repairs.”

Many Floridians are returning to their homes on Friday after Hurricane Milton struck the region, leaving behind power outages and high water.

Multiple Florida airports that shut down in anticipation of Hurricane Milton have reopened or are preparing to resume operations. A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) administration official said in a video update posted Thursday to X (formerly Twitter) that there had been "over 3,

MIAMI - Windy conditions continue across South Florida on Thursday as Hurricane Milton moves off the state's east coast after making landfall near Siesta Key, near Sarasota, on Wednesday night with sustained winds of 120 mph.

Hurricane Milton brought powerful winds, a storm surge and flooding to much of Florida after making landfall along the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm.

The hurricane spared densely populated Tampa a direct hit, and the lethal storm surge that scientists feared never materialized. Arriving just two weeks after the devastating Hurricane Helene, the system flooded barrier islands,

Got a flight later today on Friday, Oct. 11? Make sure it's not still canceled for Hurricane Milton. See status of Florida airports for today.

Tampa International, which will reopen at 8 a.m., got the all clear after workers assessed damage and determined the state’s fifth busiest airport is ready for travelers again, The airport closed Tuesday before Hurricane Milton’s hit Florida’s Gulf Coast.

Residents talk to a motorist on a street littered with storm debris from Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton in Venice, Florida. Hurricane Milton made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in the Siesta Key area.