What new direct flights are coming to the Pittsburgh International Airport this spring?
From Reykjavik, Iceland, to San Diego, nine cities are receiving new direct flights from the Pittsburgh International Airport this May. The Pittsburgh International Airport's terminal modernization project is not expected to be completed until early 2025, but new flights are set to begin this spring. Breeze announced nonstop flights from Pittsburgh to San Diego on Jan. 9, with one-way economy tickets for a flight between May 3 and 10 costing anywhere from $109 to $131. Spirit Airlines also announced plans to offer direct flights to Boston Logan International starting June 5, marking its 11th direct destination from the Pittsburgh airport. Meanwhile, Icelandair will offer nonstops flights from Pittsburghers to Reykjavík, Iceland, starting on May 16. Frontier will offer four new direct flights out of Pittsburgh in May, with flights to Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Atlanta and Raleigh-Durham starting on Friday, May 17. Southwest will resume seasonal, nonstarts flights from the airport on June 8.
Published : a month ago by Roman Hladio in Travel
The Pittsburgh International Airport’s terminal modernization project won’t be complete until early 2025, but construction is not stopping new flights from springing up.
Last year, 15 new nonstop routes were added to the airport, reported the local chapter of aviation news service Blue Sky News. Many of those flights are taking off this spring.
Here are the airlines starting new or seasonal flights out of the Pittsburgh International Airport this spring:
Breeze announced its nonstop flights from Pittsburgh to San Diego on Jan. 9.
The approximately 5 1/2-hour flights start on Friday, May 3, and will continue on Mondays and Fridays.
On Breeze’s website, one-way economy tickets for a flight between May 3 and 10 cost anywhere from $109 to $131
Start spreading the news: Pittsburghers can be a part of New York, New York, when Spirit Airlines launches direct flights in May.
The airline announced on Thursday, Feb. 29, that a new nonstop flight from Pittsburgh to New York-LaGuardia will start on Wednesday, May 8.
Spirit announced on March 28 that it also will offer direct flights from Pittsburgh to Boston Logan International starting June 5. Boston will be Spirit’s 11th direct destination from the Pittsburgh airport, according to Blue Sky News.
The flights currently costs about $90 to New York and between $64 to $104 to Boston on Spirit’s website.
Pittsburghers will be able to visit black-sand beaches, Europe’s largest glacier and the northern lights when Icelandair brings nonstop flights from Pittsburgh to Reykjavík, Iceland, on Thursday, May 16.
Bogi Nils Bogason, president and CEO of Icelandair, says Iceland’s Keflavík International Airport also opens up “easy connections to the UK, Scandinavia and Continental Europe,” for Pittsburghers in a November 2023 press release.
“Our hub in Iceland at Keflavík International Airport is a short flight from Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) with easy connections to the UK, Scandinavia and Continental Europe,” Bogason reiterates in a January release.
Economy standard tickets for the six-hour flight cost around $370 through Icelandair.
This Denver-based “ultra-low fare carrier” will begin four new direct flights out of Pittsburgh in May.
Starting Thursday, May 16, Frontier will offer flights to Dallas-Fort Worth and Philadelphia. A day later — Friday, May 17 — flights to Atlanta and Raleigh-Durham will begin.
Previous reporting notes that flights to Philadelphia will occur twice daily; Dallas-Fort Worth will be available three times per week; and Atlanta and Raleigh-Durham four times per week.
One-way tickets to Philadelphia and Dallas-Fort Worth cost about $45 on launch day. A one-way to Atlanta costs $34, and Raleigh-Durham about $80.
Southwest will resume seasonal, nonstop flights out of Pittsburgh on Saturday, June 8.
Through August, the airline will offer one flight to San Diego weekly, daily flights — increasing to twice daily on Saturdays — to Myrtle Beach, and three daily flights to Nashville.
In total, Southwest will operate 31 daily departures from the airport, according to an October 2023 press release.
Through Southwest, an economy, one-way ticket to San Diego costs $190 on June 8. Similar Myrtle Beach tickets cost between $172 and $212, and Nashville tickets are $171.