American Airlines adding flights
Service from Ontario will soon include Chicago and North Carolina’s main hub
American Airlines is increasing its service from Ontario International Airport by adding flights to two U.S. cities, including a hub that can serve as a connecting point to other destinations, the airport announced on Monday.
The Fort Worth, Texasbased airline is adding a nonstop flight to North Carolina’s
Charlotte Douglas International Airport beginning May 6, an airline top hub. The airline is already selling tickets for the flight, which departs Ontario at 9:45 p.m. A return flight arrives at 8:24 p.m.
The Charlotte-bound flight is part of a slow but steady increase in flights and destination cities for spring and summer, more than a year after the start of the coronavirus pandemic that cut air passenger travel from the Inland Empire airport in half from March 2020 to this March.
American Airlines’ North Carolina flight piggybacks onto twice-a-day flights from Ontario to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport announced earlier this month. The Chicago flights begin in August.
Also, Ontario will begin flights by Hawaiian Airlines to Honolulu starting today. The airline will bring passengers to the island five days a week. Ac
cording to the airport, the airline will increase the frequency to seven days a week starting in the summer.
Frontier Airlines is adding service to seven U.S. cities from February through May.
In addition, Colombiabased Avianca Airlines will begin service to El Salvador this summer, the first to Central America from the Inland Empire. “We are enormously grateful to American Airlines for showing such confidence in Ontario,” said Mark Thorpe, CEO of the Ontario International Airport Authority, in a prepared statement. “We have worked hard throughout the pandemic to be ready for a return to more normal travel routines and, while there is still a way to go, it is encouraging that air carriers are making Ontario a focus of their recovery plans.”