In less than three weeks, many travelers who dread the drive to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field will have a third option: McKinney National Airport.
The airport is set to open its new 46,000-square-foot terminal Nov. 11, the same day Houston-based Avelo Airlines begins commercial passenger service there. The airport is in Collin County, roughly 30 miles north of downtown Dallas and near such fast-growing cities as Frisco, Prosper, Allen and Celina.
Flights to Fort Myers, Florida, take off Nov. 11, followed by service to Las Vegas and Orlando on Nov. 12 and Fort Lauderdale and Tampa on Nov. 19. Flights to Atlanta, Denver, Nashville, New Orleans and two more Florida destinations — Sarasota-Bradenton and West Palm Beach — begin in December.
The low-cost airline plans to base three 184-seat Boeing Next-Generation 737-800 aircraft at the newly expanded airport facility. McKinney National Airport Director Ken Carley told Dallas Innovates that McKinney will be one of five national crew bases for Avelo…