{"id":305768,"date":"2026-10-13T14:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305768\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T14:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:22:32","slug":"breeze-airways-bringing-commercial-flight-service-back-to-arnold-palmer-regional-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305768\/","title":{"rendered":"Breeze Airways bringing commercial flight service back to Arnold Palmer Regional Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial flights will once again be taking off from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/arnold-palmer-regional-airport-new-terminal\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arnold Palmer Regional Airport<\/a> in Westmoreland County, starting early next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Westmoreland County Airport Authority announced Tuesday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/breeze-nonstop-flights-pittsburgh-myrtle-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Breeze Airways<\/a> will serve passengers traveling to and from the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Unity Township.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the new service scheduled to fly out of Arnold Palmer Regional, Breeze recently announced new, expanded nonstop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/breeze-airways-pittsburgh-international-airport-3-new-routes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">service from Pittsburgh International Airport <\/a>to Vero Beach, Florida, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and Canc\u00fan, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The flight service returning to Arnold Palmer Regional is happening in part, due to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/grant-could-reopen-arnold-palmer-regional-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">federal grant of $850,000<\/a>\u00a0which was given to the airport, which stipulated that service needed to be restored to old Spirit routes that flew from Latrobe to Florida and Myrtle Beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Travelers wishing to fly out of Arnold Palmer Regional have been without any options since Spirit Airlines folded in May, leaving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/arnold-palmer-regional-airport-businesses-spirit-airlines\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">airport with no commercial service<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before the airline ceased operations, Spirit had been the sole carrier at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/video\/travelers-at-arnold-palmer-regional-airport-react-to-possible-spirit-airlines-closure\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arnold Palmer Regional Airport<\/a> for the last 15 years.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commercial flights will once again be taking off from the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Westmoreland County, starting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[471,21174,73,75,74,4491,5910],"class_list":["post-305768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-myrtle-beach","tag-orlando","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-travel","tag-westmoreland-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}