{"id":93744,"date":"2026-01-22T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/93744\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:56:10","slug":"nonstop-flights-from-lehigh-valley-to-chicago-returning-american-airlines-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/93744\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonstop flights from Lehigh Valley to Chicago returning, American Airlines says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"D3YJIKI2J5A33MUNPR3ZCE3VDA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com\/homePage.do?locale=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com\/homePage.do?locale=en_US\">American Airlines<\/a> announced Thursday it will resume nonstop service between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/lehigh-valley-international-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/lehigh-valley-international-airport\/\">Lehigh Valley International Airport<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flychicago.com\/ohare\/home\/pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.flychicago.com\/ohare\/home\/pages\/default.aspx\">Chicago O\u2019Hare International Airport<\/a> starting May 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CR75O27RJRDL3G5DUMIGVNG4XU\">The daily service will offer two departures from the Lehigh Valley airport at 6 a.m. and 5:18 p.m., with return flights arriving at 4:48 p.m. and 10:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KIDV5LILABCV3PVATKX3KU3RTE\">\u201cStrengthening our connection with ORD brings significant benefits to the Lehigh Valley, offering travelers more convenient flight options and expanded access to West Coast and international destinations,\u201d said Thomas R. Stoudt, executive director of the Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JCNV3YRT5BFSTJZEXGYBKZ4VIQ\">American Airlines currently operates two daily nonstop flights from Lehigh Valley International to Charlotte Douglas International Airport and six daily roundtrips to Philadelphia International Airport aboard Landline Motorcoach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OL55MDLMOFFGRG4BCJSFX4HPBM\">The announcement comes as Lehigh Valley International Airport reported its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/lehigh-county\/2026\/01\/lehigh-valley-airport-set-records-for-passengers-and-cargo-in-2025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/lehigh-county\/2026\/01\/lehigh-valley-airport-set-records-for-passengers-and-cargo-in-2025.html\">highest passenger traffic volume<\/a> on record last year, with 1,067,114 travelers using the airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FWB2JSP6FZELPFFBZJBZZDUN6E\">\u201cWe appreciate our strong partnership with American Airlines, and their ongoing commitment to growing air service within the region,\u201d Stoudt said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Airlines announced Thursday it will resume nonstop service between Lehigh Valley International Airport and Chicago O\u2019Hare International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-93744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93744","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=93744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}