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<\/p>\nOrlando flights are returning to Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in western Pennsylvania<\/p>\n
Spirit Airlines will resume service between Latrobe and Orlando<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFOR THE AIRPORT. WHEN PEOPLE SEE THAT ARNOLD PALMER REGIONAL AIRPORT HAD ITS LOWEST PASSENGER COUNT SINCE 2011 LAST YEAR, IT\u2019S EASY TO ASSUME WHY IT\u2019S ONLY COMMERCIAL FLIGHT. CARRIER SPIRIT AIRLINES FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY IN AUGUST OF 25, AND THEY\u2019VE BEEN OPERATING LIKE THAT EVER SINCE. DESPITE THAT, THE AIRPORT HAD ONE OF ITS BEST YEARS OPERATIONS WISE EVER. WE\u2019RE IN GREAT SHAPE. OUR OPERATIONS ARE GOOD, OUR FLIGHT SCHOOLS ARE GOOD, OUR RENTAL CARS ARE GOOD. EVERYTHING THAT WE DO IS GREAT EXCEPT FOR PASSENGERS. OPERATIONS LIKE FLIGHT SCHOOLS AND CORPORATE PARTNERS FLYING INTO LATROBE IS WHAT HELPED THE AIRPORT STILL HAVE A FINANCIALLY SUCCESSFUL YEAR. THE FACILITY WAS A PART OF OVER 41,000 OPERATIONS IN 2025. THIS SPRING, THE AIRPORT WILL OPEN ITS NEW TERMINAL EXPANSION, WHICH SHOULD MORE THAN DOUBLE ITS PASSENGER CAPACITY. AIRPORT AUTHORITY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GABE MONZO SAID THE FLIGHT POSSIBILITIES WITH THE NEW TERMINAL SHOULD HELP BRING PASSENGERS BACK FOR YEARS TO COME. IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL IF WE MAINTAIN IT TO ITS MAXIMUM CAPACITY AND WE\u2019RE READY TO DO THAT. WE\u2019D HAVE TO HIRE A LOT OF PEOPLE, BUT WE\u2019RE READY TO DO THAT, AND WHEN THAT TIME COMES, WE\u2019RE GOING TO BE READY. NOW, ON TOP OF THE NEW TERMINAL OPENING IN THE SPRING, SPIRIT AIRLINES ACTUALLY ANNOUNCED ON THURSDAY THAT IT\u2019S COMING BACK WITH ITS FIVE FLIGHTS A WEEK TO MYRTLE BEACH OUT OF LATROBE, AND THAT PICKS BACK UP ON APRIL 15TH, COVERING WESTMORELAND COUNTY FROM ARNOLD PALMER REGIONAL AIRPO\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Orlando flights are returning to Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in western Pennsylvania<\/p>\n
Spirit Airlines will resume service between Latrobe and Orlando<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 3:31 PM EDT Apr 13, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\tSpirit Airlines flights between Arnold Palmer Regional Airport and Orlando are set to resume later this year.The Orlando route is back on the upcoming schedule, airport officials confirmed Monday.Spirit’s website was showing flights from Latrobe to Orlando available starting Sept. 10.Flights will operate four times per week on Sunday, Monday, Thursday and Friday.Last month, it was announced that Spirit was dropping the Florida flights at the airport in Westmoreland County.Spirit is the only commercial carrier at the Palmer airport. Discussions have been ongoing as the airport looks to add another airline, while Spirit goes through its second bankruptcy. VIDEO ABOVE: See inside the terminal expansion project at Arnold Palmer Regional AirportDownload the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tUNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Spirit Airlines flights between Arnold Palmer Regional Airport and Orlando are set to resume later this year.<\/p>\n The Orlando route is back on the upcoming schedule, airport officials confirmed Monday.<\/p>\n Spirit’s website was showing flights from Latrobe to Orlando available starting Sept. 10.<\/p>\n Flights will operate four times per week on Sunday, Monday, Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n Last month, it was announced that Spirit was dropping the Florida flights<\/a> at the airport in Westmoreland County.<\/p>\n Spirit is the only commercial carrier at the Palmer airport. Discussions have been ongoing as the airport looks to add another airline<\/a>, while Spirit goes through its second bankruptcy<\/a>. <\/p>\n VIDEO ABOVE: See inside the terminal expansion project at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport<\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando flights are returning to Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in western Pennsylvania Spirit Airlines will resume service between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[32731,103230,8597,17442,103231,217,115,139,103232,20658,141,140,17446,5125,1284,2393,1045,17492,1456],"class_list":{"0":"post-230198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-airport-official","9":"tag-arnold-palmer-regional-airport","10":"tag-friday","11":"tag-last-month","12":"tag-latrobe","13":"tag-monday","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-orlando","16":"tag-orlando-flight","17":"tag-orlando-flights","18":"tag-orlando-headlines","19":"tag-orlando-news","20":"tag-spirit","21":"tag-sunday","22":"tag-thursday","23":"tag-time","24":"tag-video","25":"tag-website","26":"tag-week"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}