Alaska Airways to fly solely nonstop route between Nashville and Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon, will quickly get nonstop flights to and from the Music Metropolis.

That may come courtesy of Alaska Airways, which is constructing out its community with flights between Portland Worldwide Airport (PDX) and Nashville Worldwide Airport (BNA). Service begins March 14, 2024, and can make Alaska the one airline to fly the route nonstop.

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“Our new flight will hyperlink a pair of thrilling areas that each have wide-ranging, festive leisure and sports activities scenes in addition to rising enterprise facilities,” Kirsten Amrine, Alaska’s vp of income administration and community planning, mentioned in an announcement.

Amrine additionally famous that a part of the explanation why Alaska added a PDX-BNA route was as a result of it observed its prospects within the area needed a neater approach to journey to Nashville. At present, all of the carriers that serve Portland, together with Alaska, have layovers of their flights to Nashville.

The brand new path to Nashville can be Alaska’s 53rd nonstop route from Portland, the place the Seattle-based provider has maintained its standing as the biggest provider within the Oregon metropolis for 20 years. With the brand new route, Alaska now flies to extra locations outdoors the Pacific Northwest from Portland than it did earlier than the coronavirus pandemic. Along with Nashville, Alaska plans to start out flying nonstop from Portland to Miami on Nov. 17.

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Right here is Alaska’s schedule for flights between Portland and Nashville:

• PDX-BNA: departs 9 a.m. PDT; arrives 3:20 p.m. EDT
• BNA-PDX: departs 4:25 p.m. EDT; arrives 7:35 p.m. PDT

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