Mainers looking to vacation down in Texas will have a new option for getting there next year.
Starting June 28, 2025, United Airlines will offer nonstop flights to Houston on Saturdays, according to Zachary Sundquist, the assistant director of the jetport.
That service will be offered seasonally during the summer, and Mainers can start booking now, Sundquist said Thursday morning.
“This is a big announcement for the Jetport,” Paul Bradbury, the jetport’s director, said in a statement. “This coming summer United Airlines will connect the world to Portland with non-stop service to five of their hubs. This level of service is truly remarkable and we are grateful for United’s continued investment in the Portland market.”
It’s the latest addition at the Portland airport. This year Breeze Airways announced new flights from Portland to Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; White Plains, New York; and Sarasota, Florida. JetBlue also announced new flights to Orlando, Florida, while Frontier Airlines added Cincinnati to its offerings out of Portland and Avelo Airlines said it would offer flights to Hartford, Connecticut.
The Portland airport is the state’s busiest. It saw record traffic in 2019, when more than 2.18 million traveled through there. But that traffic took a big hit in 2020 amid the global pandemic, with passengers traveling through the jetport falling to 792,571, the lowest than at any point in the past 15 years. That rebounded to 2.21 million last year, according to data posted on the Portland International Jetport’s website.
