Mainers making their summer travel arrangements will have a new wallet-friendly option when flying out of Portland.
Starting May 16, Frontier Airlines will fly nonstop from Portland International Jetport to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, according to Zachary Sundquist, the assistant director of the jetport.
That service will run seasonally during the summer on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.
Additionally, Frontier Airlines is bringing back its service to Philadelphia. That also will run Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, beginning May 16.
“We are pleased to see Frontier continue to invest in the Portland market,” Paul Bradbury, the jetport’s director, said Tuesday. “Cincinnati is a great market and we look forward to welcoming midwest visitors to Maine this summer. It is a testament to the strength of the Portland market that Frontier has announced the resumption of Philadelphia and new service to Cincinnati within one week.”
Frontier Airlines joins Breeze Airways in expanding the available destinations out of Portland.
Late last month, Breeze Airways announced it will offer nonstop seasonal flights to Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, on Mondays and Fridays, as well as flights to Jacksonville, Florida, with just one stop and no change of plane, starting May 24.
The Portland airport is the state’s busiest. It saw record traffic in 2019, when more than 2.18 million traveled through there. But that traffic took a big hit in 2020 amid the global pandemic, with passengers traveling through the jetport falling to 792,571, the lowest than at any point in the past 15 years. That rebounded to 2.21 million last year, according to data posted on the Portland International Jetport’s website.
