Allegiant to add service from Fort Lauderdale to four cities

Allegiant Air, the low-cost airline with headquarters in Las Vegas, announced this week that it will start direct service between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and four cities beginning in October.

The carrier launches nonstop flights between Fort Lauderdale and Portsmouth, N.H. on Oct. 1. Following are routes to the Akron-Canton area in Ohio on Oct. 2; Rochester, N.Y. on Oct. 9 and Grand Rapids, Mich. between Dec. 16 and April of 2015.

Allegiant said the new flights would bring more than 58,000 more visitors to South Florida every year.

This story was originally published June 26, 2015 at 3:45 PM with the headline "Allegiant to add service from Fort Lauderdale to four cities."