{"id":299876,"date":"2026-05-04T23:17:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299876\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:17:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:17:29","slug":"united-airlines-adds-nonstop-lax-flights-from-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299876\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines adds nonstop LAX flights from Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield will add new United Airlines nonstop service to Los Angeles International Airport beginning Aug. 11, 2026, with one daily flight.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition, United Airlines will serve 3 destinations from Meadows Field, Los Angeles (LAX), San Francisco (SFO), and Denver (DEN).<\/p>\n<p>In a release from the county, Bill LaManque, Director of the Kern County Department of Airports, said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an exciting step forward for our community. Each new route expands access, supports local businesses, and strengthens our region&#8217;s economic vitality. We&#8217;re proud to partner with both United Airlines and American Airlines in delivering these essential connections.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>American Airlines also continues to provide service from Meadows Field to Dallas\/Fort Worth (DFW) and Phoenix (PHX).<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield will add new United Airlines nonstop service to Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,126959,155,153,152,126958,162,126960,63960,13026],"class_list":["post-299876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-airport","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bfl","tag-kern-county-news","tag-lax-nonstop","tag-meadows-field-airport","tag-united-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299876","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=299876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}