FLINT, MI -- Allegiant Air will bring back its direct flights between Flint and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, starting Dec. 20, and tickets for those flights have gone on sale.
Bishop Airport announced the return of the seasonal service in a news release Monday, July 29, and said the airline will operate the route with an arrival and departure on Fridays and Mondays through April 13, 2020.
Allegiant kicked off the same seasonal flight in 2018, offering fares as low as $50 each way. On Monday, its Web site was offering one-way fares on the same flight in January for as low as $67 one way.
Bishop’s news release says the Ft. Lauderdale flight will be operated on an Airbus A320 aircraft with 177 seats.
Flights will depart Flint at 11:36 a.m. and arrive in Fort Lauderdale at 2:36 p.m. and depart Fort Lauderdale at 7:40 a.m. and land in Flint at 10:46 a.m.
Deputy Director Nino Sapone said in a statement from the airport that Bishop officials are “thrilled to once again offer our passengers Allegiant’s ultra-low fares nonstop to Florida’s east coast.”
The airline also flies to the west coast of Florida with year-round nonstop service to Orlando/Sanford, Punta Gorda/Ft. Myers and Tampa Bay/St. Pete.
After just three years in Flint, Allegiant has become Bishop’s most popular airline, accounting for more than 40 percent of all departures in April.
Bishop is the state’s third-largest airport and averaged the lowest passenger fares in all of Michigan in the fourth quarter of 2018, but its passenger traffic dropped about 10 percent -- to its lowest level in 16 years -- in 2018.
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