FCA (Kalispell MT) only open on weekends July 2026 due to runway construction
Dec 30, 2025 | 1:42 pm
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FCA (Kalispell MT) only open on weekends July 2026 due to runway construction
Due to runway construction, Kalispell airport will be closed for 4 weeks in July from Monday 6pm to Friday 10am. Delta will only fly on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. This is the high season in northern Montana. FCA is not a small destination. Delta has 5 flights a day plus additional direct ATL and LAX service in the summer. Alaska/United have full schedules as well. I do not remember any airport of this size shutting down for such long stretches.
MSO (Missoula) is 2 hours south and likely pick up Glacier Park traffic.
MSO (Missoula) is 2 hours south and likely pick up Glacier Park traffic.
Dec 30, 2025 | 6:47 pm
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Due to runway construction, Kalispell airport will be closed for 4 weeks in July from Monday 6pm to Friday 10am. Delta will only fly on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. This is the high season in northern Montana. FCA is not a small destination. Delta has 5 flights a day plus additional direct ATL and LAX service in the summer. Alaska/United have full schedules as well. I do not remember any airport of this size shutting down for such long stretches.
MSO (Missoula) is 2 hours south and likely pick up Glacier Park traffic.
MSO (Missoula) is 2 hours south and likely pick up Glacier Park traffic.
ASE is closing for awhile next year to literally move the runway.
Dec 31, 2025 | 9:23 am
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Local Business community is irate that they chose July instead of August for this. The airport itself has been undergoing a complete renovation, (and it is an amazing and massive improvement) but the July closure is likely going to be a huge hit to the local economy.
We have a vacation home up there and it hasn't affected our bookings for July, but I'm not sure people generally book their flights that far out. Still, I imagine Missoula will pick up the slack. There's a percentage of people who fly there instead of FCA anyway, as it is generally cheaper.
Hopefully once the airport renovation and expansion is complete, Delta can resume the ATL-FCA flights they had pre-Covid. One can dream, anyway!
We have a vacation home up there and it hasn't affected our bookings for July, but I'm not sure people generally book their flights that far out. Still, I imagine Missoula will pick up the slack. There's a percentage of people who fly there instead of FCA anyway, as it is generally cheaper.
Hopefully once the airport renovation and expansion is complete, Delta can resume the ATL-FCA flights they had pre-Covid. One can dream, anyway!
Dec 31, 2025 | 12:58 pm
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Dec 31, 2025 | 1:23 pm
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One other point is now that many people are work from X location, they are doing just that and flying as you do, when tickets and rooms price out cheaper. Assumes availability of decent wifi/connectivity at end point arrival location(s). Or, perhaps, a small Starlink terminal+power source and a view to the sky.
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Jan 1, 2026 | 6:21 pm
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To me July and August are equivalent. Both are summer months and when I was a kid, you had both months off from school. I usually prefer to go to Bozeman in July, because there is less chance of smoke, but I don’t know if that’s similar up in north.
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Jan 1, 2026 | 8:54 pm
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Many schools in a lot of areas start back around August 1 these days. I think they started around here on July 27, a few years ago. Now, they are out by early May too depnding upon how many snow days they have to make up.