It was quickly outgrown, and in 1939 the North Carolina General Assembly chartered the Raleigh–Durham Aeronautical Authority to build and operate a larger airport between Raleigh and Durham. Visit The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) at Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.The region's first airport opened in 1929 as Raleigh's Municipal Airport, south of town at 35☄4′06″N 78☃9′22″W / 35.735°N 78.656°W / 35.735 -78.656.
(c)2021 The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) On Monday, the airport and a coalition of Triangle companies will unveil a broadcast and print advertising campaign to encourage people to fly again and help the region's economic recovery. Before COVID-19, airlines served 57 nonstop destinations from RDU, including the four European and Canadian cities airlines expect to add back to their schedules later this year. Passenger traffic has grown steadily this year at RDU but remains below pre-pandemic levels. 17, competing with American, Delta and Frontier. And Spirit Airlines said it will begin flying daily to Miami International Airport Nov. Last week, American announced it would begin flying twice daily to Tampa, joining Delta, Frontier, JetBlue and Southwest on that route. Of the 45 destinations served nonstop from RDU, 10 are in Florida. Warm weather vacation spots are leading the rebound in air travel from the Triangle. That and JetBlue's service to Montego Bay, Jamaica, are the only international flights from RDU. 19, when JetBlue began flying to Cancun, Mexico. The coronavirus pandemic halted all international travel in and out of RDU for eight months last year, between March 31, when the last Air Canada jet arrived from Toronto, and Nov. The U.S. and other countries require airline passengers, regardless of whether they've been vaccinated, to have a negative COVID-19 test result within three days of boarding their overseas flight. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends against overseas travel for anyone who hasn't been vaccinated for COVID-19. Vaccination remains key to resuming international travel. "The point of these working groups is to share data and set out both milestones and criteria to enable a reopening of travel between our two countries as swiftly as possible, consistent with public health guidance," Sullivan told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to England last Wednesday.įor now, movement between the U.S. and Canada remains restricted to "essential travel." But there's growing pressure to ease those restrictions, and Politico reported last week that the Canadian government intends to starting doing that June 22.
The U.S., meanwhile, has established two groups of public health experts to focus on travel policies with counterparts in Europe and the United Kingdom, according to National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. State Department relaxed its travel warnings for dozens of countries last week, including Canada and France, from "do not travel" to "reconsider travel." The United Kingdom has been on the "reconsider travel" list since May 10.Įuropean countries are reopening to fully vaccinated U.S. tourists this summer, though with restrictions that can vary from country to country.
But as coronavirus cases decline with increased vaccination, the chances are better than they've been during the pandemic that these schedules will hold.
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