airlines subsequently ceased all service into the airport. According to an article in the Daytona Beach News-Journal released on September 28, 2010, Stephen J. Cooke, the director of the airport, was in talks with the recently merged Southwest/AirTran to begin service to Daytona. AirTran had served Daytona in the past competing with Delta on the Atlanta route and also operated routes to Baltimore and New York LaGuardia Airport as well. Southwest has never served Daytona. A Southwest spokesman stated at the time that it was too soon to discuss possible new service to DAB but talks were continuing. If Southwest were to serve Daytona it would likely be from numerous cities. This would increase competition and lower prices for an airport that had been a duopoly by Delta and US Airways for years. US Airways subsequently merged with American and Southwest still does not serve Daytona Beach at the present time. JetBlue began flying new nonstop service to New York John F. Kennedy International Airport on January 7, 2016, however, this operation ceased on January 7, 2019, three years to the date of their inaugural flight in 2016. On January 17, 2019, Silver Airways began nonstop daily service to Fort Lauderdale Airport with SAAB 340. The route was made possible in part from taxpayer-funded incentives from the Volusia County government. These flights ended on July 1, 2019, due to a fare level that is financially sustainable to continue in current market conditions. Canadian airline Sunwing Airlines flew between Toronto and Daytona Beach in 2019, but it no longer does. The route had been made possible in part from taxpayer-funded incentives from the Volusia County government. Facilities Daytona Beach International Airport covers and has three asphalt runways: 07L/25R, 10,500 x 150 ft. (3,200 x 46 m), 07R/25L, 3,195 x 100 ft. (974 x 30 m) and 16/34, 6,001 x 150 ft. (1,829 x 46 m). In the year ending September 30, 2021 the airport had 364,071 aircraft operations, an average of 997 per day: 62% general aviation, 36% air taxi, 2% airline and <1% military. At that time, there were 238 aircraft based at this airport: 167 single-engine, 40 multi-engine, 29 jet and 2 helicopter. Fixed-base operators ATP Jet Center SheltAir Aviation Services Yelvington Jet Aviation Aviation schools Air America Flight Center ATP Flight School Spectrum Flying Club Daytona Aviation Academy Dickinson Aviation Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Phoenix East Aviation TFA Flight