Allegiant Air will fly from the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport today for the final time.
The low fare carrier has cited low boardings for ending flights from Youngstown.
The last Allegiant flight is expected to lift off at 5:37 p.m. en route to Clearwater International Airport in Florida.
Allegiant, which began flying into the Youngstown-Warren airport in 2006, is the last carrier to provide scheduled service there.
However, airport officials have said they are talking with other potential carriers about providing flights.
Officials of one of those carriers, Southern Airways Express, attended a public forum last month to gauge interest in providing service to Baltimore-Washington International Airport and Detroit’s Coleman A. Young International Airport.
Dan Dickten, director of aviation for the Western Reserve Port Authority, which runs the Youngstown airport, has also talked with SkyWest Airlines and Sun Country Airlines about serving Youngstown.
Sun Country has provided charter flights from Youngstown and Dickten said there’s a possibility it may begin low-cost commercial flights similar to those of Allegiant or Spirit Airlines.
“Things like this just don’t happen overnight,” Dickten said. “There will be a break in service before we are able to get a new service in here.”
In the meantime, the airport authority has sued Aerodynamics Inc., which briefly operated scheduled flights between Youngstown and Chicago in summer 2016 before abruptly terminating the service.
ADI, which operated the service under the brand name Great Lakes JetExpress, has countersued the airport.
The trial in those cases is expected to begin next August at the U.S. Courthouse in Youngstown.
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