The route map as verified, November 2026

November 2026

As of November 2026, five airlines fly from South Bend, and the map states its date: United Express flies Chicago–O'Hare — increased to seven daily roundtrips on 2 September 2025 and to eight daily from 1 October 2025 — and Washington–Dulles, where United began daily service on 3 December 2024. American Eagle flies Charlotte and Dallas/Fort Worth (both since 7 June 2018) and Chicago O'Hare, a link that began on 6 October 2025 as a four-times-daily Landline luxury motorcoach sold under American flight numbers and transitioned to aircraft — CRJ-700s, three times daily — effective 5 October 2026; during the fall football season American has also operated weekend flights to New York LaGuardia and Washington National. Delta Connection flies Atlanta, Detroit, and Minneapolis/St. Paul. Allegiant, at South Bend since 2005 — the twenty-year partnership was celebrated on 6 August 2025, with more than 3.3 million passengers carried from SBN — flies Fort Lauderdale, Knoxville, Las Vegas, Orlando/Sanford, Phoenix/Mesa, Punta Gorda, and St. Petersburg/Clearwater, with seasonal Sarasota. Breeze Airways, which entered South Bend in 2024 with Fort Myers and Orlando, added Washington–Dulles in 2025, twice weekly against United's daily. The airport counts seventeen nonstop destinations. The federal traffic data for March 2025–February 2026 rank the markets: Chicago–O'Hare 97,360 passengers, Atlanta 64,680, Charlotte 59,250, Dallas/Fort Worth 56,200, Orlando/Sanford 39,040, Punta Gorda/Fort Myers 37,290, Detroit 31,950, Washington–Dulles 27,700, St. Petersburg/Clearwater 23,450, Phoenix/Mesa 22,320 — with SkyWest operating 49.16 percent of the traffic, Allegiant 30.20 percent, PSA 11.67 percent, and Breeze 4.40 percent. Federal support for the map's next edge stands on the record: a $750,000 Small Community Air Service Development Program grant of 29 September 2023, aimed at West Coast service to Los Angeles or San Francisco, or expanded Washington service.

Sources:

1. St. Joseph County Airport Authority releases — United Express to eight daily O'Hare roundtrips from 1 October 2025; United's daily Washington–Dulles service from 3 December 2024 (WNDU, 7 October 2024); American's O'Hare connection announced 23 July 2025 (Landline motorcoach from 6 October 2025; fall football-season weekend flights to LaGuardia and Washington National); Moody on the Market, 5 October 2026 — the O'Hare link's transition to CRJ-700 aircraft, three daily round trips.
2. U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, March 2025–February 2026 — top SBN markets and carrier shares (SkyWest 49.16%, Allegiant 30.20%, PSA 11.67%, Breeze 4.40%); St. Joseph County Airport Authority / Allegiant joint release, 6 August 2025 — twenty years at SBN, more than 3.3 million passengers; U.S. DOT Small Community Air Service Development Program award, 29 September 2023 — $750,000.