COLUMBIA — The first arriving flight on the new route between Columbia Regional Airport and Charlotte Douglas International Airport lands Thursday night.
The route was expected to start in early June but now starts with its first departing flight from COU on Friday. A schedule change by American Airlines caused the route’ earlier start date, Columbia Airport Manager Mike Parks said.
COU will see two more routes start in two weeks. Allegiant Air flights to Orlando-Sanford will start on June 3, and flights to Destin will start on June 5. Allegiant Air announced earlier this week that it will add a flight to St. Pete-Clearwater, which is on Tampa Bay, in November…