A US Airways Canadair Regional Jet at Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport earlier this month. US Airways flies both turboprop and jet aircraft out of Ithaca.

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Ithaca, 10 September 05 -- Tompkins County announced this week that US Airways, one of two commercial carriers operating at the Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport, would soon resume daily flights between Ithaca and Pittsburgh. Ithaca was one of some 20 smaller airports whose service to Pittsburgh was eliminated last year when US Airways decided to focus its hub operations at Philadelphia's airport.

Both Ithaca and Binghamton are regaining service to Pittsburgh on November 9th, using DeHavilland Dash-8 turboprop planes. Binghamton will have two daily flights in each direction, and Ithaca will have just one, a 1:20pm flight from Pittsburgh to Ithaca arriving at 2:35, and a 3:00pm flight from Ithaca to Pittsburgh arriving at 4:20.

A late-afternoon flight may not make Pittsburgh a desirable hub for Ithaca passengers continuing with flights to the west coast, but Northwest's daily flights to Detroit will continue to be attractive for westbound travelers.

Since discontinuing flights between Ithaca and Pittsburgh last fall, US Airways has operated multiple flights a day from Ithaca to New York's LaGuardia Airport and to Philadelphia International Airport. One frequent comment the airline received from travelers was that flying east to New York or Philadelphia en route to the west coast was inefficient.

Tickets for the flights between Ithaca and Pittsburgh, to begin November 9th, are available for sale immediately.