St. Pete-Clearwater International adds New Jersey flight

Allegiant Travel Co. has added a round trip flight between St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport and Trenton-Mercer Airport in New Jersey as part of route expansion.

The round trip flight out of the Pinellas airport is scheduled to start Feb. 2.

The flight is one of 30 new nonstop routes the Las Vegas airline announced that will connect 35 cities across the country, including four new markets, according to the statement.

The additions, along with Trenton, include La Crosse, Wisconsin, via La Crosse Regional Airport; Philadelphia, via Philadelphia International Airport; and Columbia, Missouri, via Columbia Regional Airport.

As part of a promotion to drum up traffic, the airline is offering $49 introductory one-way fares. 

The tickets must be bought by this week, Nov. 19, and for trips before Aug. 18.

St. Pete-Clearwater International’s history goes back to shortly after Pearl Harbor when it was built as a military training base known as the Pinellas Army Airfield. After the war, the federal government gave the property to the county which operated Pinellas International Airport and gave rise to the call letters PIE.

It was re-christened St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport in 1958, and the name was shortened in 2013.

It has service to more than 60 destinations, the vast majority through Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air.