{"id":417042,"date":"2026-10-02T19:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/417042\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:14:13","slug":"nonstop-to-orlando-direct-flights-from-des-moines-start-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/417042\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonstop to Orlando: Direct flights from Des Moines start in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Des Moines airport to launch new direct flight to Orlando<\/p>\n<p>DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Des Moines International Airport will soon offer a direct flight to Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Southwest Airlines will fly nonstop to Orlando International Airport on Saturdays starting in June 2027.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">\u201cOrlando is a top 10 destination for travelers from Des Moines so we welcome the additional capacity,\u201d Des Moines airport CEO Brian Mulcahy said in a news release. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to see Southwest add this new option for our passengers and look forward to increased flight frequencies once the demand is proven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">This is Southwest&#8217;s second direct flight announced at the Des Moines airport this year, following the introduction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/des-moines-international-airport-nonstop-flights-nashville\/72674047\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">direct flights to Nashville, Tennessee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Des Moines airport to launch new direct flight to Orlando DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014 Des Moines International Airport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30735,4949,165097,28,140749,6693,72182,6567,165099,139,141,3847,140,165098,3850,18183,164],"class_list":["post-417042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-des-moines","tag-destination","tag-direct-flight","tag-florida","tag-introduction","tag-june","tag-kcci","tag-nashville","tag-new-option","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-international-airport","tag-orlando-news","tag-saturdays","tag-southwest-airlines","tag-traveler","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417042","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=417042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}