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ST. GEORGE — Once-daily, round-trip flights to Los Angeles from St. George Regional Airport officially returned Thursday morning as a United Express jet took to the skies bound for Tinseltown.
"We're just really excited to resume this service," Marissa Snow, a spokesperson for SkyWest Airlines, said following the departure of the 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet from the regional airport.
SkyWest Airlines, through its partnership with United Airlines, originally offered the United Express daily round-trip flight to Los Angeles from 2017 to 2020 when the COVID pandemic put a pause on the service. Since then, area officials and residents have pined for the route's return and received welcome news in June that it was restarting.
"The demand in St. George has only continued to grow since the pandemic, and we're really excited to add this fifth major destination," Snow said.
