Heading to D.C.? State College Regional Airport announces flights to resume this summer
After a two-year absence, flights to Washington, D.C. are finally set to return to the State College Regional Airport.
The airport announced in a Facebook post Thursday that United Airlines’ flights to Washington Dulles International Airport will begin June 27. A United Airlines spokesperson told the CDT they’ll be scheduling two daily flights between the airports.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether flights to to Newark (N.J.) Liberty International would continue after the D.C. flights resume.
In March 2022, United Airlines temporarily suspended service from State College to Washington Dulles to reduce strain on the hub due to a shortage of pilots. In place of Washington Dulles, United instead scheduled two daily round-trip flights from State College to Newark.
Even then, airport director Bryan Rodgers said he wasn’t sure whether service to Newark would continue once the suspended flights to D.C. resumed. And neither Rodgers nor another airport official returned messages Thursday seeking comment. The United spokesperson also said he was not yet aware of the plans, but was looking into them.
In December 2021, Rodgers told the CDT that United intended to restore service in 2023. Obviously, that timetable wasn’t met. But United noted last month that “more than 20 new daily flights” were coming this summer to the Washington Dulles International Airport, with State College presumably among them.
State College Regional Airport, which formally changed its name last year from University Park Airport, currently offers daily flights to Chicago, Philadelphia and Newark. American Airlines and United Airlines both use the airport.
This story was originally published February 15, 2024 at 3:38 PM.
