Can you believe that it’s July already? It feels like the year has flown by. Before we know it, we’ll be counting down the last seconds of the year as the calendar flips to 2027.
But before we get there, air travelers can look forward to plenty of new flights that are set to begin during the second half of 2026.
For starters, the U.S aviation map itself is set to grow. That’s thanks to just-announced service to two airports that currently have no airline service at all.
One of those comes in North Texas, where the McKinney National Airport (DTX) will become the third airport in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area to offer regularly scheduled airline service. It remains to be seen whether it can carve out a niche against the region’s two major airports, but nonstop service to five cities begins this fall.
The other comes along Florida’s Gulf Coast, where airline service to Naples Airport (APF) will resume after a nearly 20-year absence. The carrier putting the city back on the aviation map is American, which will offer regional service to its second-busiest hub.
Even Canada is getting in on the new airport act. The city of Montreal is now served by a second airport — the MET-Montreal Metropolitan Airport (YHU) that began offering passenger flights only about two weeks ago. TPG’s Edward Russell was there as flights debuted at the new facility, which he says feels more like a lounge than a terminal.
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