{"id":31056,"date":"2025-11-01T18:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/31056\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T18:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:35:09","slug":"montgomery-regional-airport-to-offer-houston-as-new-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/31056\/","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery Regional Airport to offer Houston as new destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MONTGOMERY, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsfa.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/www.wsfa.com\">WSFA<\/a>) &#8211; Houston, the largest city in Texas, will be the newest available destination from Montgomery Regional Airport, with flights twice-a-day starting April 7. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s going to open us up to more industry, more economic development, and more leisure travel too,\u201d explained interim airport director Loyd Jenkins. \u201cPeople want to go out and visit Houston. They want to go to the basketball games, football games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The flight is extra special because the airport is bringing in a new major airline to provide it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">American and Delta Airlines already fly out of Montgomery Regional Airport, and now you can add United Airlines to that list. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Houston flights will be via United Express and operated by SkyWest Airlines, with \u201cnon-stop\u201d service to George Bush Intercontinental Airport. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cTo add a major carrier like United, for so many people that are going out west that are doing business really opens up opportunities for us,\u201d explained Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cYou want to make sure you have those legacy carriers, a lot of it is brand recognition, that\u2019s what a lot of people when they try to grab flights look for,\u201d Jenkins said. \u201cIt also opens up competitiveness so that way you can get a good fare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Houston serves as a key connector to the west coast and Latin America. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Not reading this story on the WSFA News App? Get news alerts FASTER and FREE in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wsfa-12-news\/id449733109\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple App Store<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.raycom.wsfa&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play Store<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WSFA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) &#8211; Houston, the largest city in Texas, will be the newest available destination from Montgomery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,1613,20608,6832,56,58,57,20606,20607,20179,2825,9875,9874],"class_list":["post-31056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-airlines","tag-airport","tag-express","tag-george-bush-intercontinental-airport","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-montgomery-regional","tag-skywest","tag-united","tag-united-airlines","tag-wfsa","tag-wsfa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}