Tampa International also repeated as Best Airport for Art and Best Airport for Dining

After a month of voting, the results are in: for the third year in a row, Tampa International Airport has been named Best Large Airport in USA TODAY’s annual 10BEST Readers’ Choice Awards.

Ten large airports were nominated by an expert panel and voted on by readers of USA TODAY. TPA was recognized for its wide selection of nonstop destinations, excellent amenities and top-notch concessions.

TPA was also recognized as Best Airport for Art and Best Airport for Dining, with two of the airport’s restaurants earning their own 10Best honors. Cigar City Brewing was named one of the top 10 Airport Sit-Down Restaurants, while Bavaro’s Pizza Napoletana & Pastaria was recognized in the Grab-and-Go Food category. These awards highlight TPA’s concessions program, which features a range of local favorites such as the Columbia Restaurant, Ulele, Goody Goody and Café by Mise en Place.

For the second time, TPA was named Best Airport for Art, surpassing competitors including Nashville (BNA), Denver (DEN) and Salt Lake City (SLC). TPA’s public art program is widely regarded as a benchmark for airports nationwide, with notable works including HOME by Matthew Mazzotta, a 21-foot-tall flamingo affectionately known as Phoebe; Copper Birds by Roy Butler, located inside Airside A; Final Boarding Call by Christopher Still at Airside C; and n + 1 by Ralph Helmick, displayed at the SkyConnect station in the Main Terminal.

Visitors to TPA can also discover Palimpsest by Nick Cave in the Airport’s Rental Car Center, along with three new additions to the art collection near the new Red Express Curbsides: Starfish Family | Dancing Algae by Claudia Comte, Cloud Ascent by Jason Bruges and On Memory and Plants by Janaina Tschäpe.

The 10BEST Awards come on the heels of another major honor last month when Tampa International Airport was named #1 in Customer Satisfaction for Large Airports in the JD Power 2026 North America Airport Satisfaction Study^SM, a leading industry analytics report measuring traveler sentiment.

TPA received the highest score among large airports (10 to 32.9 million passengers per year) in the study of traveler satisfaction with North American Airports. This third award comes after TPA topped the rankings in 2022 and 2023, and came in second in both 2024 and 2025.

And as if all that weren’t enough, in August, Tampa International Airport was also named Best Family-Friendly Airport in America by WhereverFamily.com. The Wherever Awards are based on the results of an open-ended reader survey, with the winners announced in a fall edition of Global Traveler magazine.

Congratulations to the 10,000-plus TPA-based employees who work day in and day out to keep America’s Favorite Airport consistently among the top-rated airports in the world.