{"id":75050,"date":"2025-12-31T20:47:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75050\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:47:28","slug":"erie-airport-lands-two-major-carriers-for-chicago-route-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75050\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie airport lands two major carriers for Chicago route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">ERIE, Pa. \u2014 An airport north of Pittsburgh received two shots of good news this month, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/organization\/american-airlines\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Airlines<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/organization\/united-airlines\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Airlines<\/a> announcing within a day of each other that they would fly the Chicago-Erie International Tom Ridge Field route beginning next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">American (Nasdaq: AAL) plans to resume year-round service between Erie and Chicago O\u2019Hare International Airport on May 21, 2026, with a 65-seat Bombardier CRJ-700 regional jet. Then United Airlines, which has a hub at O\u2019Hare, announced it would resume its own Chicago-Erie service. United\u2019s three daily flights will begin June 1, 2026, with its SkyWest regional airline partner and 50-seat Bombardier CRJ550 jets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Both jets have first-class seating; American\u2019s CRJ-700 has three classes of service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">American and United go head-to-head in Chicago, where United was granted five more gates and American got two more from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/organization\/spirit-airlines\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spirit Airlines<\/a>. 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