{"id":135295,"date":"2026-01-15T23:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135295\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T23:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:28:10","slug":"california-dreamin-new-nonstop-service-coming-to-portland-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135295\/","title":{"rendered":"California dreamin&#8217;! New nonstop service coming to Portland, Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tYou will soon be able to fly non-stop from Maine to California.The Portland International Jetport announced Thursday that United Airlines is adding summer seasonal, nonstop service to Los Angeles and San Francisco. The service to both cities will be on Saturdays only starting June 27, 2026 using a Boeing 737.\u201cToday\u2019s announcement from United is a first for the Portland Jetport,\u201d said Paul Bradbury, Airport Director. \u201cThis summer United Airlines will connect the State of Maine to the State of California with nonstop trans-continental air service! This level of connectivity is truly remarkable and we are grateful for United\u2019s continued investment in the Portland market.\u201dThis will mean that there is nonstop service from Portland to all seven of United\u2019s domestic hubs. United will also be operating Saturday service to Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas and will have daily services to Chicago O\u2019Hare, Denver, New York City\/Newark, and Washington DC Dulles for the summer 2026 travel season.\u201cThe addition of Los Angeles and San Francisco to our route network connects us with two of our top unserved markets and provides incredibly easy access to and from the west coast during our peak tourism season,\u201d said Zach Sundquist, Assistant Airport Director.Tickets from Portland to California will be available for purchase starting on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPORTLAND, Maine \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>You will soon be able to fly non-stop from Maine to California.<\/p>\n<p>The Portland International Jetport announced Thursday that United Airlines is adding summer seasonal, nonstop service to Los Angeles and San Francisco. <\/p>\n<p>The service to both cities will be on Saturdays only starting June 27, 2026 using a Boeing 737.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s announcement from United is a first for the Portland Jetport,\u201d said Paul Bradbury, Airport Director. \u201cThis summer United Airlines will connect the State of Maine to the State of California with nonstop trans-continental air service! This level of connectivity is truly remarkable and we are grateful for United\u2019s continued investment in the Portland market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This will mean that there is nonstop service from Portland to all seven of United\u2019s domestic hubs. United will also be operating Saturday service to Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas and will have daily services to Chicago O\u2019Hare, Denver, New York City\/Newark, and Washington DC Dulles for the summer 2026 travel season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe addition of Los Angeles and San Francisco to our route network connects us with two of our top unserved markets and provides incredibly easy access to and from the west coast during our peak tourism season,\u201d said Zach Sundquist, Assistant Airport Director.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets from Portland to California will be available for purchase starting on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You will soon be able to fly non-stop from Maine to California.The Portland International Jetport announced Thursday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69054,7,69052,9,8,69045,69046,69047,69048,69041,69055,47,15108,69042,69043,45053,69053,2369,69049,130,69044,101,225,5931,69050,69051,564,16644,13026,45055],"class_list":["post-135295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-airport-director","tag-california","tag-california-dreamin","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crossing-the-country","tag-flying-to-california","tag-flying-to-los-angeles","tag-flying-to-maine","tag-flying-to-san-francisco","tag-houston-bush-intercontinental-airport","tag-los-angeles","tag-maine","tag-maine-news","tag-maine-travel","tag-maines-total-coverage","tag-new-nonstop-service","tag-new-york-city","tag-nonstop-flights","tag-portland","tag-portland-international-jetport","tag-san-francisco","tag-state","tag-summer","tag-summer-travel","tag-summer-vacation","tag-texas","tag-united","tag-united-airlines","tag-wmtw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}