United Airlines announces new routes for college football fans

Many college football fans will tell you that taking in a road game is a fun experience. Traveling from college town to college town, however, often involves long drives, multiple connecting flights or flying to a big city and then renting a car. United Airlines is offering an alternative for some lucky fanbases.

The press release says the airline added “around 10,000 seats between its hubs and popular game destinations and for the first time, United has added several point-to-point flights enabling fans to fly nonstop from one college town to another. Tickets are now available for purchase.”

“Our playbook this year will make it easier than ever for fans, alumni and students to cheer on their teams in other college towns across the country,” said Ankit Gupta, United’s vice president of Domestic Network Planning. “It’s exciting for football fans and even more exciting for United to be able to operate nonstop flights between these communities for the very first time.”

LSU fans, for instance, well now have the chance to fly directly from Baton Rouge to Austin for the Sept. 7 showdown with Texas. Alabama fans will be able to fly direct from Birmingham to Columbia (South Carolina game) and College Station (Texas A&M game).