Frontier adds flights to three cities from RDU, airline says

Raleigh-Durham International Airport on Wednesday is expected to announce new flights to seasonal cities, the latest in a series of new destinations from the Triangle.

Posted 1:33 p.m. Apr 4, 2018 — Updated 2:11 p.m. Apr 4, 2018

Evan Matsumoto

, WRAL.com editor

MORRISVILLE, N.C. — Raleigh-Durham International Airport on Wednesday is expected to announce new flights to seasonal cities, the latest in a series of new destinations from the Triangle.

Frontier Airlines on Wednesday announced it would begin three new flights from RDU to Harrisburg, Pa., Portland, Maine, and Syracuse, NY. The new routes will begin this summer.

Recently, Frontier Airlines announced it would begin flying to six new cities from RDU, including Buffalo, Houston, Milwaukee, New Orleans, San Antonio and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The Feb. 8 announcement was the second expansion from Frontier in less than a year.

Frontier's aggressive expansion is aimed at established carriers like Southwest Airlines and United Airlines. For example, Frontier's new routes will make it the airline with the second most destinations from cities like Orlando, behind Southwest.

RDU has also seen robust growth from other airlines.

Last year, five airlines added flights from RDU to Paris, New Orleans and Austin, Texas.

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