Santa Barbara Airport is including two new flight locations with the return of Delta Air Strains, which can start offering day by day nonstop flights to and from Atlanta and Salt Lake Metropolis beginning June 2024.
The brand new providers have been introduced Friday, and with the return of Delta — which beforehand served Santa Barbara Airport with flights to Salt Lake Metropolis previous to the pandemic — the once-small-time native airport will now be served by the 4 largest airways within the U.S. (together with United, American, and Southwest).
“We warmly welcome Delta Air Strains again to Santa Barbara, and we’re honored by their unimaginable dedication to our neighborhood,” Airport Director Chris Hastert mentioned. “This two-hub announcement demonstrates their want to serve the wants of all vacationers to/from this space with the best stage of service and connections obtainable.”
Whereas Delta supplied direct flights to Salt Lake Metropolis in 2019 and 2020, the nonstop providers to Atlanta will likely be a brand-new vacation spot and can formally be the longest direct flights to and from the Santa Barbara Airport at greater than 2,000 miles.
The brand new locations might additionally carry a brand new inflow of tourists to Santa Barbara and supply a lift to the native tourism business.
“We’re trying ahead to our lodges, eating places, and sights benefiting from companies introduced by these new flights,” mentioned Kathy Janega-Dykes, president and CEO of Go to Santa Barbara. “The brand new routes enable for higher connectivity by means of standard hub airports and supply improved entry to customer markets within the Southeast. For Santa Barbara residents, it is going to be extra handy than ever earlier than for household and mates visiting from these areas, and to take journeys themselves.”
With the addition of Atlanta and Salt Lake Metropolis, there at the moment are 11 locations that provide nonstop service to and from Santa Barbara, together with Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Seattle.
Beginning June 7, 2024, there will likely be one flight every morning to Atlanta departing at 7:25 a.m. adopted by a return flight each evening from Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport to Santa Barbara departing at 7:23 p.m. and arriving at 8:55 p.m.
Salt Lake Metropolis flights will likely be supplied twice day by day, with flights leaving Santa Barbara at 6 a.m. and 1:20 p.m. every day and return flights departing from Salt Lake Metropolis Worldwide Airport at 11:15 a.m. and 10:45 p.m. and arriving at 12:18 p.m. and 11:51 p.m., respectively.
Tickets will likely be obtainable to guide beginning September 16, and repair will begin full-time in June. For data on detailed flight schedules to and from Santa Barbara, go to flysba.santabarbaraca.gov/.
