On Wednesday, October 31st, 2012, Allegiant flight 611, an MD-80 aircraft with about 70 passengers on board, departed for Orlando, beginning a new era of airline service from Harrisburg International Airport (HIA). This new kind of airline, called an Ultra-Low-Cost Carrier or ULCC, offered nonstop flights to “alternative” airports in the Orlando and Tampa Bay…

Exercise required by FAA every three years FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Scott Miller(717) 948-3900 (Middletown, PA – September 10, 2022) Harrisburg International Airport (HIA), in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations, will conduct a full-scale emergency plan training exercise at the airport in Middletown on Saturday, September 10, 2022 beginning at 9:00 AM.  “The FAA…

ALLEGIANT ANNOUNCES NONSTOP SERVICE FROM HARRISBURG TO FORT LAUDERDALE WITH ONE-WAY FARES AS LOW AS $59*   The new route is part of a 22-route expansion across the airline’s network, connecting locals to more of their favorite destinations Harrisburg, Penn. Aug. 10, 2021  — Allegiant (NASDAQ: ALGT) today announces nonstop service to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International…

Passenger and Cargo Airlines are Adding Flights for Summer  (Middletown, PA – April 30, 2021) – March 2021 was the busiest month at Harrisburg International Airport in a year as 65,402 total passengers used the airport.  “While March traffic was still down 2.8% versus March 2020, departing passengers actually increased 4.7 percent,” said Timothy Edwards,…

History will record April and May 2020 as the two slowest passenger traffic months in airport history. However, passengers and flights are returning to HIA this summer.  April 2020 passenger traffic declined by 96% when compared to April 2019 as airlines reduced flight schedules and practically all non-essential business and leisure traffic nationwide came to…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Scott Miller (717) 948-3900 ext. 4620 HIA Ready for Busiest Thanksgiving Ever 30,000 passengers expected at the airport during Thanksgiving Travel week (Middletown, PA – November 22, 2019) – More people than ever will have the opportunity to fly to and from Harrisburg International Airport during the Thanksgiving holiday travel week…

On Saturday, September 9, 2019, Harrisburg International Airport and Allegiant hosted over 55 dogs from Susquehanna Service Dogs for a training event. The familiarization event is an annual outing for Susquehanna Service Dogs, but with partnership from Allegiant, is expanded to include on-board aircraft training. The first part of the training day included riding the…

First six months of 2019 were the busiest in airport history FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Scott Miller (717) 948-3900 ext. 4620 (Middletown, PA – June 26, 2019) – More flights to more destinations should mean more passengers choosing Harrisburg International Airport.  So far in 2019, it has. A record 721,427 passengers flew into and out…

Year-to-date traffic up 15.8 percent (Middletown, PA – June 3, 2019) – The Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority (SARAA) reported a total of 128,830 passengers used Harrisburg International Airport (HIA) during April 2019 making it the busiest April in airport history.  Traffic was up 18.3 % vs April 2018 and up 6.9 % over the…