STEWART AIRPORT – Frontier Airlines, a low-cost carrier that began service from New York Stewart International Airport to three Florida cities in October 2021, will be ending its flights from the Newburgh area facility this summer.
When the airline introduced its Hudson Valley travel, it flew three routes – Tampa, Orlando, and Miami. It currently only flies to Orlando a couple of times a week.
That route will end after July 2, something that caught Orange County Chamber of Commerce President Heather Bell, who also chairs a regional airline attraction committee, off guard.
She acknowledged that Stewart is geographically in a difficult location.
“It’s 45 minutes from three, almost four competing airports and it’s an hour to an hour-and-a-half from the New York City airports,” she said. “You have to have a competitive game to really make that airport successful,” she told Mid-Hudson News.
Representatives from Frontier and the Port Authority, which operates Stewart, did not return several phone calls and emails for comment.
When Frontier leaves, the only airlines serving Stewart will be Allegiant with flights to Florida and season service to Myrtle Beach and Play Airways to Iceland with connecting flights to several European cities.
In August, Atlantic Airways will operate a once-weekly service to the Faroe Islands on a seasonal basis.
