The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/airlines/)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the $24.7 million expansion of the Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport is set to be complete in late 2019 after attending the groundbreaking on Oct. 16.
Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport made a surprising announcement last week that it would expand service with the addition of Continental Airlines flights. This comes in the midst of service cutbacks across the country as airlines struggle to deal with skyrocketing fuel costs.
Larry Baum, President of the Ithaca Air Service Board, announced during a July 1 meeting of the Tompkins County Legislature that the airport would welcome back Continental this October. Continental, which left the airport in 1996 due to inadequate demand, plans to offer four daily non-stop flights from Ithaca to its hub, Newark Liberty Airport.
Baum also said that, beginning in August, Northwest Airlines’ morning flight from Ithaca to Detroit will be upgraded to a larger plane.