Leaders hope the Columbia airport adding Spirit and Allegiant airlines will bring more tourists and investment to the area.

Spirit Airlines will now offer nonstop flights from Columbia Metropolitan Airport to Newark, New Jersey, as well as Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Starting in June, Spirit will feature direct flights from the Columbia Metropolitan Airport ... South Carolina service at ...

president and CEO of the local visitors bureau Experience Columbia SC, and Mike Gula, president and CEO of the airport, pointed to the NCAA avoiding the road as proof of why it needs to improve.