FOR IMME­DI­ATE RELEASE

ECP ANNOUNCES FIRST-EVER NON­STOP FLIGHT TO NEW YORK CITY WITH DELTA AIR LINES

Con­nect­ing New York City and North­west Flori­da for Sum­mer Travel

PANA­MA CITY, Fla. (Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 28, 2025) — North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (ECP) announces that Delta Air Lines will be launch­ing new sea­son­al Sat­ur­day ser­vice between LaGuardia Air­port (LGA) and ECP for Sum­mer 2025. The new ser­vice will begin on June 14, 2025, and will oper­ate once week­ly on Sat­ur­days. Addi­tion­al­ly, Delta will offer dai­ly ser­vice from June 28, 2025, to July 6, 2025, to accom­mo­date trav­el­ers for the 4th of July hol­i­day. The flights will run through Labor Day and will be oper­at­ed on Delta’s CRJ-900 aircraft. 

Park­er W. McClel­lan Jr., A.A.E., Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of ECP high­light­ed the sig­nif­i­cance of this new route, stat­ing, ​“This is a his­toric moment for ECP as we intro­duce our first-ever non­stop flight to New York City. Part­ner­ing with Delta Air Lines to offer this new sea­son­al ser­vice will pro­vide our pas­sen­gers with more con­ve­nient trav­el options and enhance con­nec­tiv­i­ty between New York City and the beau­ti­ful beach­es of North­west Flori­da. We are proud to bring this excit­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty to our Region and look for­ward to wel­com­ing trav­el­ers from the Big Apple.”

Delta is Amer­i­ca’s most-award­ed air­line lead­ing the way to deliv­er a world-class cus­tomer expe­ri­ence on up to 5,000 dai­ly flights to more than 290 des­ti­na­tions on six con­ti­nents, con­nect­ing peo­ple to places and to each other. 

Start­ing Sat­ur­day, March 1, 2025, pas­sen­gers can book their flights direct­ly through Delta or by using the new Fly­MyAir­port book­ing tool avail­able on the ECP website.

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About North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port

North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (ECP) is locat­ed less than 30 min­utes from Pana­ma City Beach, Pana­ma City and the beach­es of South Wal­ton. Today, with ser­vice from Amer­i­can Air­lines, Delta Air Lines, South­west Air­lines, and Unit­ed Air­lines, ECP pro­vides dai­ly flights to world­wide des­ti­na­tions, includ­ing dai­ly and sea­son­al non­stop flights to Atlanta (ATL), Austin (AUS), Bal­ti­more (BWI), Char­lotte (CLT), Chica­go (MDW/ORD), Dal­las (DAL/DFW), Den­ver (DEN), Hous­ton (HOU/IAH), Indi­anapo­lis (IND), Kansas City (MCI), Nashville (BNA), New York City (LGA), Philadel­phia (PHL), St. Louis (STL) and Wash­ing­ton DC (DCA). The first inter­na­tion­al air­port to be built in more than a decade, ECP pro­vides North­west Flori­da com­mu­ni­ties with first-class facil­i­ties and was strate­gi­cal­ly devel­oped for major eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties. ECP is the gate­way to vis­i­tors seek­ing North­west Florida’s famous beach­es.