Delta Adding Nonstop Flights Between Pittsburgh and Orlando

Pittsburgh’s snowbirds planning to visit Orlando and its famous theme parks will have a new nonstop flight option starting in December.

Delta Air Lines announced on Friday it will introduce nonstop, seasonal service between Pittsburgh International Airport and Orlando International Airport beginning Dec. 20. Flights will operate on Saturdays through April 11, 2026. This marks Delta’s return to the Pittsburgh-Orlando route for the first time since March 2019.

Delta will fly its Pittsburgh-Orlando route with 76-seat Embraer E175 aircraft, operated by regional carrier Republic Airways. Tickets go on sale at Delta.com starting Saturday.

Pittsburgh-Orlando is one of eight new routes Delta is adding this winter for leisure travel that are “point-to-point” – meaning they do not connect through a hub airport. Seven of the new routes include Orlando, increasing capacity to one of the most popular U.S. vacation destinations.

Network carriers like Delta, which primarily operate hub-and-spoke networks, will add nonstop routes to leisure destinations, especially during the winter and spring, to utilize aircraft on off-peak days.

A Delta Connection E175 operated by Republic Airways comes in to land at PIT on Feb. 1, 2025. (Photo by Evan Dougherty)

In additions to Delta’s service to Orlando, American Airlines last month announced it is adding seasonal, nonstop service between Pittsburgh and Punta Cana beginning on Dec. 6. The route will complement American’s existing nonstop service to Cancun, which is scheduled to resume in November, effectively doubling the airline’s Caribbean network from PIT.

Delta joins four other airlines offering nonstop service to the Orlando market. Southwest Airlines and Spirit Airlines each operate daily, year-round flights to Orlando International and Frontier Airlines provides seasonal, weekly nonstop service. Allegiant Air flies nonstop to nearby Orlando/Sanford International Airport (SFB) year-round with weekly flights from PIT.

Delta’s Orlando service expands capacity from PIT to Florida, which reached a milestone this spring. In March, airlines operated the most scheduled seats to Florida of any month in PIT’s history, with nearly 297,500 seats.

Since 2014, PIT has grown its Florida network from five destinations to 14 in 2025 across seven different airlines (Allegiant, American Airlines, Breeze Airways, Delta, Frontier, Southwest and Spirit).

Florida is PIT’s largest market with nearly a quarter of the airport’s passengers traveling to or from the Sunshine State.