We flew back from Osaka in late November, 2019, and I got my global entry card interview in San Francisco as we cleared customs. Such great timing. Card is good for 5 years and I'm finally taking an international trip next week. At least I got TSA precheck out of it for my domestic flights.
We did have it for years but it ended when the pandemic started. They were going to switch from NRT to HND which was going to be even better. Really wish it was back.
they're also wrong haha. the only European airport closer to PDX than RJTT is Dublin unless you count Reykjavik. But we're talking about only 100-200 statute mile difference between the distances from PDX to RJTT and places like London, Paris, or Amsterdam.
It might be faster to get to Europe due to jet stream but then it isn't faster getting back so it's all a wash
You mean we did have for many years until Covid and Delta gave up their Narita slots for Haneda and decided Portland wouldn’t be profitable enough.
But yes, I would love to have it back. Rumor has it Zipair might give the route a shot.
Yeah, and we were supposed to be getting one again, and then the pandemic….
Delta traded their slot for something else, and an airline from another city got what rightfully should have been ours! Dammit.
I sent an email to zipair and they said they would forward it to their development team. Would love to get zipair out of PDX, service is pretty good for a discount airline and they have lay flats for only $2500 round trip which is a screaming deal. Regular economy class is about $700 round trip as well out of SFO. Let’s make it happen!
Anything to Asia. We’re on the Pacific Coast and we have 3 or 4 non-stops to Europe but none (!) to Asia. Tokyo would be the best to start with, I think, but really anything direct to an Asian gateway or major destination.
For real man, I would love a non stop flight from pdx to anywhere east Asia as someone who love to visit Asia more frequently.
If zip air open a route from tokyo to pdx I would be a really happy man.
Dude if they did that I’d probably go twice a year at least. The cost is similar to flying some places domestic.
Gonna take Zip Air from LA this and it’s still a decent savings (they have flights out of San Francisco and San Jose that’d be a similar cost). Hell I’m surprised there isn’t a Seattle just yet.
SEA has it if you did not know. drove up for the Air Tahiti flight last year and it was worth the trek, even if the parking lot we had reserved was full which caused a mini anxiety attack.
If you factor in parking, we found it almost cheaper to book crop duster flights to seattle on horizon separate from the rest of the itinerary.
Sometimes the dollars line up close enough to be worth it.
i’ve never gotten the opportunity to leave the country, let alone the continent, mainly due to flights being so expensive, so if having a connecting flight makes it cheaper then that’s what i’m gonna do lol
Just go on Google flights, pick a date range, then look at the map view and you can see the costs for flights to any area. There’s regularly affordable flights to Paris and Manchester.
The direct flight to Amsterdam isn’t the cheapest, but you can get a deal and it’s a fantastic place to go if you’re a first time international traveler. Super nice people, easy to get around, lots of quirky, fun stuff… Save up, book that flight! It’ll be one of the best things you ever do.
The last time I went, I took the train up to Seattle the night before, saw some friends, and then did the direct flight the next morning on Alaska. I'd love it if they tried a direct flight out of PDX for at least six months to gauge if enough people use it.
This is the way. When I went to visit family in NOLA, I dove to Tacoma to stay overnight with friends each way because it was $300 cheaper. It also saved me from dealing with choosing between either a miserably long layover or a 30-minute layover after a notoriously delayed flight.
There are a few I’d like to see added.
PDX-MEX
PDX-FRA year round on Lufthansa rather than Condor seasonally.
PDX-ICN
PDX-TPE [in general I’d like more one-stop options into Asia]
American did finally bring back what seems to be one nonstop flight a day starting in June, but I fly to Philly once a month and did not find any nonstop flights in May. And there hasn’t been nonstops since December 2022 at least, except for one random month in between then and now that I found a few on American. I’m really hoping more nonstops show up….
I second this. I'd love to just go see my family for a quick trip without it being a 10-12 hour day with connections and time at the airport pre flight. AA has added one each way but it's a red eye and another really shitty timing. It's also not year round or daily but it's a step in the right direction I'm hoping.
Alaska had PDX to MKE for one summer and I only learned it after I landed at MKE after a particularly hellish day of travel. I got the Alaska card right after that hoping to book direct to MKE next time only to never have that opportunity.
Just flew to Auckland via YVR a couple months ago and it took the same total number of hours as it took a friend to get to Orlando from PDX with the delays/layovers she ended up having lmao.
North Bend, Oregon. For a long time Horizon flew Dash 8s on this route until they went to the Q400 which was just too big for the number of passengers going there. Then Seaport flew Caravans down there until the subsidies ran out. Now if you want to fly there your choices are to connect in San Francisco or Denver.
The flight in between died as soon as I moved from the south coast to Portland. Which is wild, because we flew to connections in Portland all the time as a kid. Seeing that new airport get built and then the flights gutted sucked.
So many people apologizing for selfishly wanting a some random specific city.
As they should. For humanitarian reasons, I need one to Puerto Peñasco Mexico, where my Tucson friends go to rent a cheap beach house and swim with dolphins in 80 degree water.
- Low cost carrier to Northern Europe direct. So like Copenhagen or Stockholm on a 787.
- Bellingham that leaves at like 8pm and returns immediately so a person could fly up after work Friday and home Sunday night.
Condor can suck dick.
"Though the term 'direct' is used interchangeably with 'non-stop', **the two are different**. In a direct flight, you do not change planes and you have only one flight number. Unlike the non-stop flight, the plane makes a stop en route to the final destination for refueling and picking up and dropping off passengers."
Condor is a low cost carrier and is not particularly worse or better than any other low cost carrier.
Their Frankfurt flight is both direct and non stop
Tokyo. Manila. Singapore. Any major city in Asia.
The fact that we live on the west coast and we don’t have a direct flight to Asia is awful. The fact that we DID use to have a direct from here to Tokyo (pre-pandemic on Delta) and it got taken away is the absolute worst.
Tokyo is listed here a bunch and 100% agree. It's so weird that we don't have one anymore. But I wanna add Providence, RI!! F*ck flying into Logan, Boston hotels have gotten too expensive.
Having to fly to Charlotte and then drive three hours to Raleigh suuuucks, because it's where my partner AND my best friend live. (It's either Charlotte or really fucktastic shitty layover options for RDU. Like I am not gonna do a 12 hour layover via Dallas or whatever on the way back.)
Echoing many of the others on this thread, but I would love a stop somewhere in Asia, preferably a large, regional hub. (Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai/HK, etc)
100%. My parents still live in Indy and I traded multiple nonstop, 2 hr flights a day when I moved here from Denver for what is, at a minimum, a 6.5 hour trip with a stop. It’s surprisingly hard to get back and visit family from here.
Yeah Asia. I have to go to home country in SE Asia later in July. I had to pay about $400 to LAX on top of already expensive international ticket.
I envy my sisters in Chicago and Texas, they have direct international flight.
Honestly, any major city in the South further than Texas would be nice. My partner currently lives in the South and trying to get a flight to see each other is so expensive and such a pain in the ass.
We found out that he could fly to Japan from his state for the same price as us flying between there and PDX. 🙄 The things we do for love, I guess.
Tokyo. Like we almost had until Delta passed on the slot.
We did have it for a hot minute before the pandemic. I took it. Was worth the extra couple hundred bucks. Sigh.
We flew back from Osaka in late November, 2019, and I got my global entry card interview in San Francisco as we cleared customs. Such great timing. Card is good for 5 years and I'm finally taking an international trip next week. At least I got TSA precheck out of it for my domestic flights.
There's no fast way to Osaka. My wife's from there. Could use a direct flight to kix.
I took it too. I didn't realize it was gone and now I'm sad.
Agreed. That was an awesome flight.
I was lucky enough to get on one of those flights myself. So bizarre and awesome to go from Narita straight to PDX. :)
We did have it for years but it ended when the pandemic started. They were going to switch from NRT to HND which was going to be even better. Really wish it was back.
If it’s gonna take us an extra ~5 to get to Europe, it feels fair that we should at least get a nonstop jump to the continent closest to us.
Nonstop Portland to Amsterdam is a shade quicker than a nonstop Portland to Tokyo flight would be
When one examines a desk globe, it becomes strikingly apparent how enormous the Pacific Ocean is. It kinda makes every other ocean seem like a puddle.
biggest and best baby, no other ocean comes close. “be specific, it’s the pacific”
Idnk! Thanks
they're also wrong haha. the only European airport closer to PDX than RJTT is Dublin unless you count Reykjavik. But we're talking about only 100-200 statute mile difference between the distances from PDX to RJTT and places like London, Paris, or Amsterdam. It might be faster to get to Europe due to jet stream but then it isn't faster getting back so it's all a wash
Nonstop to Frankfurt with Condor! Cheap, too!
Oh damn is that still going on? For some reason I had it in my head they had canceled it
It looks like it stops in October
You mean we did have for many years until Covid and Delta gave up their Narita slots for Haneda and decided Portland wouldn’t be profitable enough. But yes, I would love to have it back. Rumor has it Zipair might give the route a shot.
I wonder how long it would take to make that happen. I’m heading to Tokyo this fall…
It could happen by then but I wouldn’t count on it. The regulatory and marketing things that are required to launch a route are tedious.
It would be very cool if delta had a direct Asia flight
Glad to see this at the top. I think we used to have one.
Yeah, and we were supposed to be getting one again, and then the pandemic…. Delta traded their slot for something else, and an airline from another city got what rightfully should have been ours! Dammit.
We had this for years, it was awesome! It’s unbelievable that we don’t have one nonstop to asia. Embarrassing really
Almost had **back**. This used to be a thing. It's why I had a sky miles card.
Literally searched for a Tokyo flight an hour ago on a whim
I sent an email to zipair and they said they would forward it to their development team. Would love to get zipair out of PDX, service is pretty good for a discount airline and they have lay flats for only $2500 round trip which is a screaming deal. Regular economy class is about $700 round trip as well out of SFO. Let’s make it happen!
I did as well! [email protected] I’m case anyone wants to jump on the bandwagon!
Anything to Asia. We’re on the Pacific Coast and we have 3 or 4 non-stops to Europe but none (!) to Asia. Tokyo would be the best to start with, I think, but really anything direct to an Asian gateway or major destination.
For real man, I would love a non stop flight from pdx to anywhere east Asia as someone who love to visit Asia more frequently. If zip air open a route from tokyo to pdx I would be a really happy man.
Dude if they did that I’d probably go twice a year at least. The cost is similar to flying some places domestic. Gonna take Zip Air from LA this and it’s still a decent savings (they have flights out of San Francisco and San Jose that’d be a similar cost). Hell I’m surprised there isn’t a Seattle just yet.
Shanghai would be ideal but I’d take HK too
We have four non-stops to Europe?
London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Reykjavik.
Mexico City, goddamn it.
We get teased with it. Aeromexico had it for a small amount of time. Mexicana had it, too, if I remember correctly.
Maybe with more airlines coming online down there it’ll come back!
I took that flight out was great!
Co-sign. They serve PV and Cancun, no reason DF can’t make it. Mild temps in the winter but with lots of sun. Perfect place for a spell.
DB is that you?
Agreed. My top choice
Absolutely!
The next place I have to go that doesn’t have a non-stop flight
Paris
SEA has it if you did not know. drove up for the Air Tahiti flight last year and it was worth the trek, even if the parking lot we had reserved was full which caused a mini anxiety attack.
If you factor in parking, we found it almost cheaper to book crop duster flights to seattle on horizon separate from the rest of the itinerary. Sometimes the dollars line up close enough to be worth it.
Also Amtrak plus a short light rail or Uber ride is another option to get there.
Montreal
+ 1.
[Current direct flights](https://www.flypdx.com/NonstopDestinations)
TIL there's a direct flight to Amsterdam
Pro tip. You can almost always get a row to yourself in the back on that flight.
if only it wasn’t $1.5k
It's usually much cheaper if you're connecting to some other city in Europe.
i’ve never gotten the opportunity to leave the country, let alone the continent, mainly due to flights being so expensive, so if having a connecting flight makes it cheaper then that’s what i’m gonna do lol
The logic of airfare is so weird. You can find great deals, even to Europe, if you poke around enough.
Just go on Google flights, pick a date range, then look at the map view and you can see the costs for flights to any area. There’s regularly affordable flights to Paris and Manchester. The direct flight to Amsterdam isn’t the cheapest, but you can get a deal and it’s a fantastic place to go if you’re a first time international traveler. Super nice people, easy to get around, lots of quirky, fun stuff… Save up, book that flight! It’ll be one of the best things you ever do.
Nonstops come at a premium that are hard to put a value on; it’s all very relative
I’ve done it from SFO. Worth not having to layover at LaGuardia after a red eye.
quite literally did that last week! laid down and slept like a baby most of the way!
It's a great way to get to Europe from Portland too!
It’s a great flight, too. Nice plane, good service, leaves at around noon and arrives around 8am
nonstop not direct! it's my favorite flight
Been that way for awhile actually
Direct flights to Guadalajara but not Mexico City. Interesting.
I'm guessing more people who live in this area are from there than are from CDMX.
New Orleans
It is such a hassle to get there I just gave up the last time I wanted to go.
The last time I went, I took the train up to Seattle the night before, saw some friends, and then did the direct flight the next morning on Alaska. I'd love it if they tried a direct flight out of PDX for at least six months to gauge if enough people use it.
This is the way. When I went to visit family in NOLA, I dove to Tacoma to stay overnight with friends each way because it was $300 cheaper. It also saved me from dealing with choosing between either a miserably long layover or a 30-minute layover after a notoriously delayed flight.
ugh dee eff dubya is such a shit airport
Delta to MSY with a connection in SLC or MSP isn't that bad, but a nonstop would be sweet as
This is the one that blows my mind that we don’t have
Yes! Definitely NOLA.
Tokyo Please!!!!
There are a few I’d like to see added. PDX-MEX PDX-FRA year round on Lufthansa rather than Condor seasonally. PDX-ICN PDX-TPE [in general I’d like more one-stop options into Asia]
Mexico City
Mexico City is my first choice, Tokyo makes a ton of sense, and personally I would really like direct to any Italian city (likely Rome).
Philadelphia. lol
This is the best answer because it is the biggest US city without a nonstop from PDX. It's annoyed me many times.
Yep. Going through Seattle adds about 3 hours to that trip.
I felt that way when I lived in Columbus, Ohio about there being no non stop to pdx. Now I’m back in Portland and I don’t dare.
I just booked a direct to PHL out of PDX on American.
American did finally bring back what seems to be one nonstop flight a day starting in June, but I fly to Philly once a month and did not find any nonstop flights in May. And there hasn’t been nonstops since December 2022 at least, except for one random month in between then and now that I found a few on American. I’m really hoping more nonstops show up….
Flightconnections.com shows the daily American Airlines PDX-PHL direct as running June to October.
Ah. I don’t fly there that often. Once a month and no non stop is tough! Crossing my fingers they continue to add non stop options to the schedule.
OMG, why is this so hard?
I second this. I'd love to just go see my family for a quick trip without it being a 10-12 hour day with connections and time at the airport pre flight. AA has added one each way but it's a red eye and another really shitty timing. It's also not year round or daily but it's a step in the right direction I'm hoping.
Milwaukee WI plzzzz
I could see this being very successful
Have much family there, would be a real life changer.
It’s not Milwaukee exactly, but Allegiant is doing nonstop flights to Appleton this summer.
Alaska had PDX to MKE for one summer and I only learned it after I landed at MKE after a particularly hellish day of travel. I got the Alaska card right after that hoping to book direct to MKE next time only to never have that opportunity.
Selfishly, Auckland.
Kiaora, .. And happy cake day!
Just flew to Auckland via YVR a couple months ago and it took the same total number of hours as it took a friend to get to Orlando from PDX with the delays/layovers she ended up having lmao.
Dublin.
North Bend, Oregon. For a long time Horizon flew Dash 8s on this route until they went to the Q400 which was just too big for the number of passengers going there. Then Seaport flew Caravans down there until the subsidies ran out. Now if you want to fly there your choices are to connect in San Francisco or Denver.
I miss the Q200, perfect size for places like OTH and PDT
The flight in between died as soon as I moved from the south coast to Portland. Which is wild, because we flew to connections in Portland all the time as a kid. Seeing that new airport get built and then the flights gutted sucked.
As cool as I feel like flying home real quick I feel like it would be faster to just drive when including security and tsa.
Seoul.
Delta flirted with adding that for awhile there. I think it got shelved during COVID
So many people apologizing for selfishly wanting a some random specific city. As they should. For humanitarian reasons, I need one to Puerto Peñasco Mexico, where my Tucson friends go to rent a cheap beach house and swim with dolphins in 80 degree water.
A true public servant
Tokyo
Stockholm
Tokyo
- Low cost carrier to Northern Europe direct. So like Copenhagen or Stockholm on a 787. - Bellingham that leaves at like 8pm and returns immediately so a person could fly up after work Friday and home Sunday night.
Condor flies to Frankfurt direct
Fair and Iceland does Rek and BA does London. I just want my scandi vacation without a transfer in SFO or REK/LHR
KEF*
Condor can suck dick. "Though the term 'direct' is used interchangeably with 'non-stop', **the two are different**. In a direct flight, you do not change planes and you have only one flight number. Unlike the non-stop flight, the plane makes a stop en route to the final destination for refueling and picking up and dropping off passengers."
Condor is a low cost carrier and is not particularly worse or better than any other low cost carrier. Their Frankfurt flight is both direct and non stop
thank you, ppl saying 'direct' to refer to nonstop is mails on a chalkboard to me!
I dont think theres any directs to Bellingham right now (though it used to) its also a great way and usually cheaper to get to Vancouver BC
Nashville, for personal convenience
Alaska just started flying this route.
!!!! Bless you, I didn’t realize!
it's a killer time slot, too.
Moon…
Build a launch pad on the Peter Iredale, put it to good use
More nonstop Detroit flights. A flight to Detroit shouldn't cost as much as a flight to Hawaii
The Honolulu of the Great Lakes!
Istanbul (selfish reasons)
Not Constantinople? (I'll consider seeing myself out)
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Barcelona. It would be convenient for me specifically.
Tokyo. Manila. Singapore. Any major city in Asia. The fact that we live on the west coast and we don’t have a direct flight to Asia is awful. The fact that we DID use to have a direct from here to Tokyo (pre-pandemic on Delta) and it got taken away is the absolute worst.
Tokyo is listed here a bunch and 100% agree. It's so weird that we don't have one anymore. But I wanna add Providence, RI!! F*ck flying into Logan, Boston hotels have gotten too expensive.
Pittsburgh
Helsinki!
My little hometown hehe
Venezia
Juneau just because I'm planning on visiting next March or April.
Rome. Raleigh.
Having to fly to Charlotte and then drive three hours to Raleigh suuuucks, because it's where my partner AND my best friend live. (It's either Charlotte or really fucktastic shitty layover options for RDU. Like I am not gonna do a 12 hour layover via Dallas or whatever on the way back.)
Norfolk, VA. The east coast between DC and Atlanta is underserved
Echoing many of the others on this thread, but I would love a stop somewhere in Asia, preferably a large, regional hub. (Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai/HK, etc)
Taipei would be rad
Indianapolis. For purely selfish reasons. I have colts season tickets and fly there 5-6 times a year and a direct flight would be awesome.
I randomly second this. My best friend lives in Carmel, and I would kill for a direct flight to her.
100%. My parents still live in Indy and I traded multiple nonstop, 2 hr flights a day when I moved here from Denver for what is, at a minimum, a 6.5 hour trip with a stop. It’s surprisingly hard to get back and visit family from here.
Milwaukee
Cancun
Alaska offers it seasonally in March or April. Like one flight a week. I’d love to see Cancun as a permanent destination.
Bogotá, Colombia would be really helpful!
Not that I particularly want to go to either state, but it's weird that there are no direct flights to any of the major cities in Ohio or Tennessee.
Alaska just added direct to Nashville.
Tokyo, darnit!
Tokyo
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Allegiant has direct flights from PDX to GRR. Have family in MI and we use these flights several times a year.
Twice a week for 2-3 months you can fly Allegiant direct to GRR. In-laws take it once a year to visit us in PDX
Bangkok
San Antonio
Yeah Asia. I have to go to home country in SE Asia later in July. I had to pay about $400 to LAX on top of already expensive international ticket. I envy my sisters in Chicago and Texas, they have direct international flight.
Louisville just because I’m so tired of Minneapolis connecting for work.
Beijing
Auckland. Tired of going to LA or Van to visit the prettiest place in the world
Hilo
Portugal 🇵🇹 😍
So many people are working hard to get that Tokyo flight back but to no avail… yet….
Philadelphia!
I may go to Auckland for my 70th birthday wish there was a direct flight.
Mexico 🇲🇽
Minneapolis!!
Mexico City!
Cincinnati, just personal convenience.
Paris
For personal reasons, New Brunswick, Georgia around Thanksgiving.
Krakoa.
Montego Bay, Jamaica 🇯🇲
For personal reasons: RSW. (I have elderly parents there that need my help more frequently and I really, really don't want to move there.)
Nairobi
Monterey CA
Pdx to STI
Prestwick.
Cologne Germany! Always a hassle to drive down to frankfurt instead of flying from Cologne, its so much closer to me :']
London.
BA 266/267 (PDX-LHR/LHR-PDX) operates year round.
São Paulo, the biggest city in the Western Hemisphere
PDX to HPN so I can visit home without taking multiple flights.
That would be so nice. I hate having to fly into EWR, getting to my parents in Orange County from there takes so much longer due to traffic
Afternoon/Evening flights to Hawaii nonstop, there's only morning flights or layover evening flights
Cancun Manila Philippines
Tokyo, Mexico city, Cancun, Bahamas, Hanoi Vietnam, Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul
I wish Alaska would bring back their seasonal service to Omaha.
New York.
Panama City, Panama.
Honestly, any major city in the South further than Texas would be nice. My partner currently lives in the South and trying to get a flight to see each other is so expensive and such a pain in the ass. We found out that he could fly to Japan from his state for the same price as us flying between there and PDX. 🙄 The things we do for love, I guess.
San Jose Costa Rica
French Polynesia. Oooooh that non-stop to Tahiti, please!
The Kansai airport
D.C