New Non-Stop Destinations Abound At Pittsburgh International Airport

Seasonal low-cost flights begin soon to Boston, New York, Philly and more.
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Start packing your bags because Pittsburgh International Airport is continuing to add and resume nonstop flights to help with your spring and summer travels. 

Low-cost Spirit Airlines announced it is beginning new daily flights from PIT to Boston Logan International on June 5, according to Blue Sky News, the news service for the Allegheny County Airport Authority. The flights will leave Pittsburgh at 4:56 p.m. and arrive in Boston at 6:34 p.m. Your return flights will leave Boston at 2:25 p.m. and arrive in Pittsburgh at 4:06 p.m.

Delta Air Lines and JetBlue already fly that route to Boston. 

With this announcement, Spirit now serves 11 nonstop destinations from PIT. On May 8, Spirit begins daily, seasonal nonstop flights to New York-LaGuardia, supplementing its existing service to Newark International Airport.

In late March, Spirit resumed its seasonal, nonstop service to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and recently increased capacity to Orlando, Florida. 

Coming May 16, low-cost Frontier Airlines will begin two nonstop flights a day to Philadelphia. This is part of an expansion by Frontier that also includes service to Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth and Raleigh-Durham.

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Later that month on May 24, low-cost Sun Country Airlines resumes its seasonal service between PIT and Minneapolis/St. Paul with flights twice a week; in June these increase to four flights a week. 

For international flights, British Airways is increasing flights to London Heathrow to six times a week beginning April 1. Air Canada will resume daily nonstop flights to Montreal on May 1.

On May 16, Icelandair kicks off its new, seasonal, four-times-a-week service to Keflavik International Airport in Iceland, about an hour outside of its capital Reykjavik. Make sure to monitor the activity in southern Iceland of a series of volcano eruptions that began in December in the Reykjanes Peninsula and has caused disruptions at some of the popular tourist attractions, like its geothermal spa, Blue Lagoon, according to The New York Times.  

If you’re more interested in visiting the West Coast, Breeze Airways will start seasonal flights twice a week to San Diego on May 3. Southwest on June 8 will start nonstop seasonal weekend flights to this southern California city.

Alaska Airlines will increase its nonstop Pittsburgh-Seattle service with a second daily flight resuming May 16. United Airlines will add a third daily flight to Denver on May 23. 

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