Getting AroundFriday, November 6
SeaPort Airlines will fly between Spokane and Olympia starting Jan. 8, 2027
The Daily Olympia team
If you travel between Spokane and Olympia, your trip is about to get shorter. The Port of Olympia and SeaPort Airlines announced Thursday twice-weekly flights between Spokane's Felts Field and Olympia Regional Airport. It's the first regional air service there in 22 years. The last was Big Sky Airlines in 2004.
The new Spokane route by the numbers
- 22 years
- since regional air service last flew to Olympia
- 1 hour
- expected flight time between the two airports
- $279
- for a one-way ticket out of Felts Field
Sources: Spokane Journal of Business, The Olympian
Kent Craford, SeaPort's founder and CEO, said getting to Olympia “will no longer require an entire day of travel.” Spokane Airports CEO Dave Haring said in the release that about 500 passengers each way travel between Spokane and western Washington every day.
- Days: Fridays and Sundays during the legislative session
- Aircraft: nine-passenger Pilatus PC-12 turboprops
- Speed: capable of 200 knots
Olympia's airport gets regional flights again after 22 years
- 2004Big Sky Airlines flies the last commercial air service at Olympia Regional Airport.
- 2025SeaPort Airlines relaunches flight services.
- Jan. 2027SeaPort's Spokane to Olympia flights begin.
Sources: Spokane Journal of Business, The Olympian
Sources: Spokane Journal of Business, The Olympian