{"id":353086,"date":"2026-06-28T00:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353086\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T00:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:15:07","slug":"new-austin-flights-delta-adds-nonstop-to-fort-myers-fla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353086\/","title":{"rendered":"New Austin flights: Delta adds nonstop to Fort Myers, Fla."},"content":{"rendered":"

Delta Air Lines<\/a> will fly nonstop from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to Fort Myers, Fla. this winter, the carrier announced Friday.<\/p>\n

The airline will fly the route on Saturdays from Nov. 21 to April 10, ferrying passengers to the Gulf Coast beach destination during the cooler months of the year. The flights will operate on\u00a0Airbus A220-300 aircraft<\/a>, which seat 130 passengers and feature Wi-Fi, power outlets and seatback screens.<\/p>\n

Delta will also double the number of flights between tech-focused Austin and Las Vegas for CES 2027, the annual consumer electronics show<\/a>, bumping the frequency from once-daily to twice-daily Jan. 4-10.<\/p>\n

Friday’s announcement adds to a spate of changes Delta has made to its Austin service in recent weeks. The airline recently announced plans to launch daily nonstop service to San Jos\u00e9 Mineta International Airport<\/a> \u2014 the closest commercial airport to Silicon Valley \u2014 in California\u2019s Bay Area this fall. Service begins Oct. 6 and will operate year-round.<\/p>\n

The airline is also adding a third daily flight to Orlando.<\/p>\n

Delta, Austin’s second-largest airline behind Southwest, has added six other routes this year. The company began year-round service to Columbus, Ohio, and Kansas City, Mo., and seasonal service to Asheville, N.C., Bozeman, Mont., and Kalispell, Mont., earlier this month. It will launch twice-daily service to Phoenix<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n

The carrier grew its passenger count in Austin by nearly 15% from 2024 to 2025, according to airport data, and opened a flight attendant base at the airport in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delta Air Lines will fly nonstop from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to Fort Myers, Fla. this winter, the carrier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-353086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353086","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=353086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}