Columbus’ two airports are anticipating a file summer season for air journey, and you’ll be a part of it by flying on to The Huge Apple, The Huge Straightforward, The Windy Metropolis or Sin Metropolis.
You too can now go to — with out a layover — what has been known as the “Dwell Music Capital of the World” (Austin, Texas) and the “Smithsonian of the South” (Raleigh, North Carolina).
John Glenn Columbus Worldwide Airport and Rickenbacker Worldwide Airport have expanded their nonstop flight choices within the final two years, and have hit a milestone of fifty nonstop locations throughout North America.
Listed here are the not too long ago added nonstop flight choices (all go away from John Glenn):
- Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina by way of Breeze Airways
- Orange County, California by way of Breeze Airways (seasonal)
- Windfall, Rhode Island by way of Breeze Airways
- Austin, Texas by way of Southwest
The Columbus Regional Airport Authority, which operates the John Glenn and Rickenbacker airports, is anticipating summer season air journey volumes this 12 months to completely rebound from pandemic ranges and surpass the record-breaking season in 2019.
The authority is projecting round 1 million scheduled departing airline seats between June 1 and July 31. That’s in comparison with 996,000 seats throughout the identical time interval in 2019.
“We’ve seen practically all our routes return that had been misplaced in the course of the pandemic,” stated Betsy Taylor, supervisor of passenger airline enterprise growth for the airport authority. “This summer season is anticipated to be busy, with airways flying bigger plane into our area.”
Previous to the coronavirus pandemic, about half of the passengers flying out of Columbus had been touring for leisure, based on the authority.
At first of 2022, Taylor stated that leisure vacationers had change into the clear majority, and the authority responded by including extra flights to widespread trip spots — like nonstop flights to Miami or Cancun, Mexico.
“Leisure journey continues to be robust, however enterprise journey has been returning,” Taylor advised The Dispatch earlier this month. “Work journey is wanting a bit totally different lately, with some passengers purposefully seeking to prolong their enterprise journey right into a leisure journey. The trade has been referring to this as ‘bleisure’ journey.”
Listed here are some sunny locations you possibly can fly to straight from Columbus airports this summer season (some are seasonal, however all are provided in July 2023):
- Atlanta by way of Delta or Southwest
- Cancun by way of American, Southwest or Trip Specific
- Charleston, South Carolina by way of Allegiant or Breeze
- Charlotte, North Carolina by way of American
- Dallas and Fort Value, Texas by way of American or Southwest
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida by way of Allegiant, Southwest or Spirit
- Houston by way of Southwest or United
- Jacksonville, Florida by way of Breeze
- Las Vegas by way of Southwest or Spirit
- Los Angeles by way of Spirit
- Miami by way of American
- Myrtle Seaside, South Carolina by way of Allegiant or Southwest
- Nashville by way of Southwest
- New Orleans by way of Breeze or Spirit
- Orlando, Florida by way of Allegiant, Frontier, Southwest or Spirit
- Phoenix by way of American or Southwest
- San Francisco by way of United
- Tampa, Florida by way of Allegiant or Southwest
The airport authority retains an up to date listing of nonstop flights.
When you’re prepared to drive to Cincinnati Northern Kentucky Worldwide Airport (the most affordable parking zone is $9 per day), that airport boasts greater than 50 nonstop locations, together with some Columbus is not linked to straight.
Just a few of these locations with heat climate embrace Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; Los Cabos, Mexico; Savannah, Georgia; and a few Florida locations like Fort Myers and Key West. You too can attain London straight from Cincinnati by way of British Airways.
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