Florida Governor Meets With Executives From All Nippon Airways & Japan Airlines

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is working to get direct flights from Japan.

DeSantis met with executives from All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines on April 26 in an effort to secure the new service

Florida Secretary of Commerce Laura DiBella also joined DeSantis in the meetings, which took place in Japan.

Florida is home to two of the largest airports in the country, a press release by the Governor’s office said.

In 2022, Miami International Airport was the busiest airport in Florida and received a record breaking 50.6 million visitors. Orlando International Airport fell to second place, with 50.1 million visitors in the same period.

 

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Anonymous
7 months ago

Nice job, Governor. Thanks for taking a break from your fight with Disney to do something that will actually benefit Florida residents.

Melo is sigma and Chad
7 months ago

disney is spreading propaganda

Anonymous
7 months ago

Propoganda is coming from the anti^ “woke” crusaders and the outsourced overseas bots.

Katastrophe
7 months ago

Woke ( adjective) : A estate of awareness only achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everything except their own behaviors ….

Anonymous
7 months ago

Anti-Woke (Adjective): A state of attacking vulnerable people, including the apolitical, through discrimination, propaganda, and regulatory attacks, to elevate one’s power, or a willful disregard of consciousness, freedom and neighborly love.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Anti-Woke (Synonym): Normal.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Normal is subjective, and so should matters of free speech and freedom.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Still at it with the Russian bot B.S. huh? Never mind woke ideology is what is enabling Russia and China to take over the West.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Nobody said Ruska. By playing into woke wars you’re playing into hands of those who want to distract us and waste our time when we could be improving things like matter… like airports.

Marco
7 months ago

Really girl?

Anonymous
7 months ago

Ugh Just when I was starting to think you were actually a pretty smart guy. What propaganda is Disney spreading?

Not Anonymous
7 months ago

That everyone deserves to express their opinions and identity

Anonymous
7 months ago

and identity is not an opinion. it’s a fact, the fact is that gay people do exist and you can’t make them disappear by banning books or banning words or banning drag shows. shakespeare actors were all drag queens and high heels and skirts were in fact designed and made for men. BUT BEING ANTI_WOKE does not allow you to pick up a book and learn this, while the books still exist. soon they will burn them. you know who banned books? FIDEL CASTRO and HITLER

Anonimouse
7 months ago

By propaganda you mean that people should treat others with decency or hear the stories of others?

Socretes
7 months ago

Nope.
You interpreted that wrong professor.

Anonymous
7 months ago

As a private business, the government cannot censure them.

Anonymous
6 months ago

You and DeSantis are spreading the propaganda. Luckily you Christian Nationalists are all going to Hell, so guess we’ll see ya there.

Polikarpos
7 months ago

Fighting Disney perverted woke agenda is doing a lot for Florida ,Go DeSantis get the Rat !

Anonymous
7 months ago

perverted is thinking that cheating on your spouse and paying hookers is normal. meanwhile being gay is perverted? yup that’s why we need a law banning racist and deporting them to some island in the arctic circle.

Anonymous
7 months ago

this TRIP TO JAPAN , it won’t help any, the flight is too long and if disney decides to move out of florida ORLANDO AIRPORT traffic will drop, leaving us with only one good international airport. he should have visited FT LAUDERDALE instead and governed over his state instead of pretending to be good for business.

Anon
7 months ago

Now stop with the Disney and abortion nonsense. Ron is beginning to annoy even folks who voted for him in November with all this crazy stuff

Anonymous
7 months ago

I didn’t know the DNC had influencers here. Or are you a bot?

Anonymous
7 months ago

I agree, Ron needs to focus on economic policy and not the “culture wars” BS. He needs to identify what he can do for workers and businesses. Pandering to trailer park bible thumping idiots is not a legitimate plan.

Anonymous
7 months ago

He went after Hyatt too… and didn’t calculate how it would impact development for Miami River front, all bc of a bawdy drag act. Seen worst at sports events. So anti business and freedom. Not like the good GOP and Dems in SoFl who generally agree on most issues .

Anonymous
7 months ago

Hyatt is in the hotel business, not circus.

Socretes
7 months ago

Right….
The evidence to support your “argument” is that the unemployment rate in Miami is the lowest in the United States of America.

Any other evidence to support your “argument”.
Any facts….
Any data….

Let me guess….because of Ron DeSantis, Ken Griffin did not just relocated 1,000 employees or invest nearly a 1/2 a billion dollars in downtown real estate.

Ron DeSantis should NOT focus on the preventions of child grooming.
Grooming children is perfectly great, and all politicians should sit idly by and let our children be groomed, mutilated, and turned upside down.

No wonder the Miami Herald site did not just sell for $1.2Billion dollars. The evidence is overwhelming. DeSantis is not good for the economy.

I fondly remember the Miami Herald land when Lawton Chiles was Governor…..oh….those parking lots were amazing.

GREAT NEWS! For those who started paying attention to Ron DeSantis and may have voted for the other guy.
The Great news, and it has nothing to do with him passing out in the South Beach condo with fentanyl overdosing male prostitutes when his wife and kids were at home.

The GREAT news for Gillium (D) is that of the 21 Corruption charges when he was a leader of the Police force, 2 out of the 21 were dropped!

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/fbi/2023/04/11/andrew-gillum-public-corruption-trial-new-indictment-drops-two-charges/70101804007/

It is probably good for Florida that the Unemployment rate is the best in the USA, that business is booming, and the crack head lunitic is not in the Governors Mansion.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Gillium was a clown but that doesn’t make DeSantis a knight in shining armor.

Anonymous
7 months ago

We may have dodged a bullet with Gillium but investors are coming for money, fueled by climate, diversity of thought and freedom. It’s probable Floridas success was inevitable regardless of party, and driven by the more moderate positions of the big cities. If you want to stop “grooming,” do it against extreme cases regardless of ideology, like conversion therapy grooming. Don’t selectively pick your targets based on identity. Let’s all be less partisan and look out for one another. Florida is amazing. Thank you!

Anonymous
7 months ago

Guys like “Socretes” have no identity without being partisan. It’s how they define themselves. Individual thoughts from these people die from loneliness.

Anonymous
7 months ago

miami is run by democrats

Not Anonymous
7 months ago

Lol quite the opposite, unfortunately all of the grumpy cuban grandpas vote republican, so the city is one of the most conservative in the nation.

Fuck you
7 months ago

Double past tense usage, go get your GED.

Anonymous
7 months ago

He doesn’t need to do much on economic policies, considering people are flocking here in droves from New York and California because of said economic policies.

Anonymous
7 months ago

What DeSantis economic policy? No personal income tax? That was around before either you or DeSantis were sperm swimmers.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Yeah I would never have voted for him after what I know now. Hope it goes back to how great it was before he took office.

Anonymous
7 months ago

So you agree Rick Scott and big Bad Orange Man’s first two years were great? Thanks.

Socretes
7 months ago

“Yeah I would never have voted for him after what I know now. ”
Ohhh….would you have voted for Gillum knowing what you SHOULD know now?

MiamiRob
7 months ago

GILLUM’s Personal life is just that “PERSONAL” and non of your business except it seems to the Behavior Republican Queens like DeSantis & his followers.

CaliforniaLeaving
7 months ago

lol…Folks who voted for him didn’t know about the abortion nonsense? Low information voters where have you been? keep up ALL the great work Ron!!

Stop the Woke
7 months ago

It would not be nonsense if you were the one who was aborted

Not Anonymous
7 months ago

You were so exited you had to say it twice 🤣

Anonymous
7 months ago

His ab0rtion stance has changed drastically as he tries to appeal to the far-right. He was previously in support of 15 weeks. Now it’s 6. Who’s the low-information voter now, tough guy?

Socretes
7 months ago

That someone convinced you that people who think differently than you think are “low information” is troubling.
Take a little time to hear other people.
Be tolerant.
Chances are, we all have similar views on the problems, and agree that there needs to be solutions. THEN we can have an adult conversation on how to improve conditions.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Me! He has lost my vote with the abortion stance.

Anonymous
7 months ago

He lost me at initiating and losing a pissing contest with Mickey Mouse….how’s he gonna deal with China and Russia? The stakes are much higher.

Anonymous
7 months ago

You mean like Buydone, by doing nothing?

Anonymous
7 months ago

He lost my vote when he started attacking his people and businesses, and discriminating and stoking fear against vulnerable LGBTQ+ people.

Anonymous
7 months ago

What vote? He’s term limited, won’t win the primary, and by 2028, most of you will have reconsidered your single-issue nonsense.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Attacking your own star business/tourist attraction and the anti-abortion and the save the children from drag queens BS are 3 issues, not a single one.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Who, DeSantis who is doing stuff beyond the aforementioned, case in point with this article, or blue checkmarks and the media?

Anon
7 months ago

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is not working on anything but his pretend presidential campaign

Truth Matters
7 months ago

You are obviously not only misinformed but obviously jealous.

MiamiRob
7 months ago

Nobody is Jealous of the Navy pee collector except for Donald Rump.

Anon
7 months ago

He is changing FL law so he can run and stay Gov. Also changing law so he can conceal records. Why are legislatures changing these laws for him?

Not Anonymous
7 months ago

cause they’re his puppets

Conno Sir
7 months ago

Nothing and I mean nothing on the legislatures are to stay in power forever. You guys are delusional and some day may be sorry

Anonymous
7 months ago

At least they are changing to the laws rather than disregarding or bending them, like some…

Not Anonymous
7 months ago

We finally beat Orlando! It shows a lot that Miami is a more popular place to visit, even without multibillion dollar theme parks. Just another reason for an MIA needs a complete revamp.

Anon
7 months ago

Even Palm Beach International airport is building a new state of the art terminal… MIA is so far behind the times.

Anonymous
7 months ago

News to me. They are renovating a 35-year-old one.

Anon
7 months ago

35 years old and somehow still looks impeccable and modern.

Qwerty
7 months ago

No, Orlando has overtaken Miami again, as of January. Miami just happened to be ahead in December.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Orlando is our friend. Let’s work together.

Anon
7 months ago

Great job Gov. We like when you bring more culture to the state, instead of fake “woke” attacks on modern families and businesses.

Melo is sigma and Chad
7 months ago

those aren’t “modern families”

Marco
7 months ago

Really girl?

What a Joke
7 months ago

In your case, wouldn’t you consider them “traditional families”?

Anonymous
7 months ago

See where those kids will be ten years from now with all this bad influence. Hint: behind bars or six feet under.

Anonymous
7 months ago

I didn’t know modern families mean broken homes, and modern businesses meant falling stocks.

Socretes
7 months ago

Who is “we”?
Thankfully, the Gov. of Florida, and the Mayor of Miami created an environment to attract Citadel.

The hundreds of millions that Citadel has invested in:
Miami Dade Public Schools
Nicolas Children’s Hospital
and many other charities seems like more than Andrew Gillum could have attracted.

Anonymous
7 months ago

That environment was a no state income tax one which existed long before you were born

Anonymous
7 months ago

He stepped away from his holy war to do his actual job. Well look at that.

anon
7 months ago

Why is he doing this when he could be restricting someone’s 1st amendment rights?

Anonymous but you can call me Mike
7 months ago

Finally the governor is focusing on business and not on a culture war fake issue. It was about time! Now try to stay on the ball to get it done.

ParkingHated
7 months ago

Finally he does something actually relevant. Hope it’s not just more show boating.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Ron is an Ivy League-educated guy determined to energize rednecks enough to get them to vote for him and his moral crusade so that his huge ego can be satisfied. Yale undergrad magna cum laude/Harvard Law cum laude….if it weren’t for his raging ego he could be partner at a top law firm like Greenberg Traurig making $400k/yr, not $140k/yr as Florida Gov. But then he wouldn”t have his picture in the press.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Point taken. But just fyi, partners at GT are making well above $400k. Lol

Socretes
7 months ago

Some people excel at Yale (graduate at the top of their class), and graduate at Harvard (at the top of their class) to show the world their “ego”.

Other people point this out with a post in the comment section of The Next Miami for their ego to soar!

(Make sure to add The Next Miami credit to your resume! Just in case you are in a job interview against Ron DeSantis, and his resume his placed side by side next to yours.
Of course, Yale and Harvard are familiar names….but certainly you must be better….

Anonymous
7 months ago

What are you babbling about, and is this why you keep messing up the orders at the Wendy’s drive-thru window? Be sure to print out my response and show it to your shift manager.

Anonymous
7 months ago

your father graduated CumOften from DeVry.

lawyer
7 months ago

Senior Associates at GT make $400,000 in Miami. PPP is $2,000,000

Pete
7 months ago

Miami Airport needs some very much needed renovations and expansions in order to accommodate those new airlines. Some areas are very old and even the new ones are showing water filtration and poor maintenance.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Wow the governor actually took time out from fighting with Disney, campaigning for his presidency, banning gay people, and allowing for guns to run free and actually did something good for the Florida people

Hi again.
7 months ago

I highly doubt Japanese or other Asian tourists are going to want to come to Florida with all the nonsense that is happing with abortion, guns, etc. Sorry, but for them, this is really damn foolish. They constantly see news over there about “Another mass shooting in America” and think it’s dangerous and dumb how Americans still have guns or “America’s conservative politicians going after LGTBQ people.” Reality is, many Asian countries are slowly progressing with their stances on LGTBQ and abortion, while the US is going backwards.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Rather go to Florida than NYC or San Fransicko where the crazed criminals on the streets have guns.

Hi Again.
7 months ago

All I’m saying is how foreigners, especially from Asia, where guns are illegal, view the US. I lived in Korea where guns are illegal and there’s no shootings, ever. It’s completely safe to walk around anywhere in Korea or go to stores, schools, concerts without having to worry about getting killed by a gun. They think Americans are crazy with all this gun nonsense. Maybe politicians should focus on ways to reduce crime so people wouldn’t feel the need to get guns and do more crime.

Socretes
7 months ago

My experience in the USA is great.

NEVER in over 1/2 a century have I ever been killed by a gun.

In fact, I have more guns in my house than there are people living in my house. Never. Not once a year, twice a year, or once every other year, has a gun ever shot me, my family, or any of my house guests.

Now to Asia.
I was in Hong Kong. BEFORE the Chinese Government killed all the defenseless protestors and/or disappeared them.
Such easy marks for the authoritarians. Soooooo easy to control a weak bunch of citizens who do not have guns to defend themselves.

Perhaps your science, data, and information is more accurate than mine, but there are a lot of Asians hoping to live in the USA and that number is disproportionate to the number of Americans beating down the walls of China to get in.

Think more deeply.

Anonymous
7 months ago

You have 3 water pistols? Does your mom know?

Anonymous
7 months ago

Fuck your guns

anon
7 months ago

I haven’t been killed by a gun in China so, by your argument, that means its safe.

Socretes
7 months ago

“You highly doubt it”?

Can you provide any facts or data to support your writing?
The last time that I was in China, there was a Government effort to remove sissies and champion real men.

Meanwhile, some of the best woman athletes and female leaders in the USA were born as men.

Anonymous
7 months ago

The last time you were in China? LOL, more like the last time you were at Hing’s getting takeout.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Maybe you should go back and move there…

Anonymous
7 months ago

dude thats gonna be like a 20 hour flight

wanderer34
7 months ago

An Asia to Miami route has been in the talks for decades. Miami already has a Japanese and a Taiwanese consulate and all it needs is a direct flight from Asia.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Won’t be Taiwan, LOL.

Stop the Woke
7 months ago

The charter flight for the Japan National team during the baseball classic only took 15 hours

Steve G
7 months ago

Instead of direct flights from the far east, how about high speed rail from South Florida to Atlanta ATL?

Socretes
7 months ago

Four out of the five US metropolitan areas with the lowest unemployment rates are in Florida, thanks to the state’s growing population, robust tourism activity and increased business investment.

Miami had the lowest unemployment rate of metropolitan areas with more than 1 million people in February at 2.2%, tied with Birmingham, Alabama, according to the latest rankings from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Jacksonville, Tampa and Orlando all had unemployment rates below 2.7% that month. Nationally, the jobless rate stood at 3.5% in March.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/16/economy/florida-cities-unemployment-rate/index.html

Anonymous
7 months ago

And by the DeSantis won 60% of the vote.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Because the dem candidate was awful. Not because people love DeSantis.

Anonymous
7 months ago

If the Governor is so evil, MIA already offers plenty of destinations of your choosing and to never come back.

Anonymous
7 months ago

We need checks and balances. Most of Florida is fiscally conservative, socially liberal, with some radicals in each direction. It’s a purple state.

Socretes
7 months ago

Do you not know that there ARE checks and balances already?

Anonymous
7 months ago

Florida is my home and I won’t run away to let the GOP taliban ruin this beautiful state. We will keep fighting for our freedoms against the Bible thumping rednecks.

Juan
7 months ago

The whole point of democracy is that you get to call your elected official evil and then vote them out. Your comment makes zero sense in an America that is run by democrats.

Anonymous
7 months ago

The stupidity of wokeness should leave the children alone. If you’re an adult and want to see drag queens dance fine but don’t do it in elementary schools morons. That’s why DeSantis is standing up for the majority of rational people against Disney and others.

Anonymous
7 months ago

You are totally wrong. He is demonizing all drag shows and gay people, not just drag shows at elementary schools.

Antennae
7 months ago

To all the people on this page degrading our governor. Please consider yourselves lucky you can actually express your opinions. If we end up with a 1 party government like the one Dems are proposing with their schemy ways, that won’t ever be allowed.
what happened to the respect to our constitution? Respect for different opinions?

Anonymous
7 months ago

They hate our Constitution because it was written by wypipo and want it shredded and replaced with something written by the UN.

Little Girl Pissed
7 months ago

I follow the news and not Fox. Where did you hear that the Democrats working for one party?The former President tried to overthrow our government. That would mean 0 party government. They have that kind of government in Russia and China.

Socretes
7 months ago

Check out the C-Span feed.

Anonymous
7 months ago

The only party fighting for authoritarian rule is the party supporting the twice defeated P.O.S. who literally tried to overthrow the government to steal the election. Try again.

Stop the Woke
7 months ago

Thanks Gov DeSantis keep up the good fight..

Anonymous
7 months ago

Woke – The active promotion of identity-based social justice issues that directly counter perceived insensitivity against progressive ideology.

Mad Dash
7 months ago

Thank you Governor for all the good work you are doing in keeping our state free and protecting our children.

anon
7 months ago

Lol, you’re in for a treat when you see how all the newly eligible voters show up at the polls in 2024 and that trend is only going to intensify as time goes by. GL!

Stop the Woke
7 months ago

You mean the voters that left running from all the blue states, yeah sure.

Anon
7 months ago

Didn’t leave bc it was woke. Left bc it was controversial. Now that controversy is happening here in the reserve. Stop the Controversy, is what you should be saying.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Controversial what? You mean failed idiology running those states into the ground and standing of living plummeting? Try harder.

anon
7 months ago

Lol, no, the 4 year’s worth of voters who will have turned 18 and lean 80% to the left… don’t forget the 4 years’ worth of older voters who will have ‘expired’ during that time frame and lean ~60% right… why do you think the RNC is doing everything they can in their power for the next election rigging process and trying to raise the voting age?

Bonus fun… extrapolate that out over two or three election cycles to see how stacked the odds are. Overturning roe was a gift in disguise for the dems.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Only rigging done is the DNC already ballot harvesting.

Anonomatopoeia
7 months ago

If you aren’t liberal in your 20s you have no heart.
If you aren’t conservative in your 30s you have no brain.

Anonymous
7 months ago

You have been saying that for years, and look at the results in this state last November.

Socretes
7 months ago

My experience has been that the loony Dems in NY are still defending the genius stylings of Emmy Award Winning Governor Andrew Cuomo.

(Anyone remember when Andrew Cuomo was compared to Ron DeSantis?)

The loonies did not move to Florida. They are so hard headed that all the facts and evidence in the world will not convince them that their policies are detrimental to a healthy and sustainable community.

In fact, the loonies are sooooooo hard headed, that they conveniently forget Andrew Cuomo and Andrew Gillum and just slog forth as if facts do not matter.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Polls not looking too god for ole’ Ron lately. Seems like people are realizing how awkward and fake he is.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Hahah, trusting the polls.

Anonymous
7 months ago

They have been right nearly every time with 45. Yet the Republican Party still idiotically is standing behind him.

Anonymous
7 months ago

You’re right. Polls/science = bad. Personal anecdotes/feelings = good.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Oh Shit! Did they steal the polls too?