Tailwind Air Announces First-Ever Seaplane Service to Washington DC

Sea­plane oper­a­tor Tail­wind Air has announced a new des­ti­na­tion to Wash­ing­ton DC, where trav­el­ers may fly non­stop direct­ly from New York Sky­port (NYS) to Wash­ing­ton DC’s Col­lege Park Air­port in 80–90 min­utes.

Tail­wind will also offer one-stop flights from Boston Harbor’s Fan Pier Mari­na to Wash­ing­ton DC’s Col­lege Park Air­port, with sched­uled ser­vice to begin in Sep­tem­ber oper­at­ed by a fleet of Cess­na Grand Car­a­vans fea­tur­ing two expe­ri­enced pilots able to land on water or at an air­port.

Tail­wind Air co-founder and direc­tor of sched­uled ser­vices Peter Man­ice explained: “When fac­tor­ing in the full jour­ney of one hour and twen­ty min­utes with no need to access con­gest­ed air­ports on both ends, we offer the fastest, least stress­ful and pre­mi­um way to trav­el between DC and Man­hat­tan.”

Col­lege Park is a his­toric, uncon­gest­ed air­port 25 min­utes from the Capi­tol, 18 min­utes from Chevy Chase, 25 min­utes from George­town, and 5 min­utes from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mary­land. NYS is Manhattan’s ded­i­cat­ed sea­plane base with a ded­i­cat­ed cli­mate-con­trolled lounge for all pas­sen­gers.

Tail­wind Air CEO and cofounder Alan Ram added: “Bypass­ing the con­ges­tion of the north­east cor­ri­dor between Boston and Wash­ing­ton, DC remains the core mis­sion of Tail­wind Air.

“This new DC ser­vice com­ple­ments our exist­ing ser­vice between Man­hat­tan and Boston Har­bor, as well as our numer­ous sum­mer des­ti­na­tions in the Hamp­tons and Province­town. Check-in cut­off is just 10 min­utes pri­or to depar­ture and the uncer­tain­ty of check-in, secu­ri­ty, air­port con­ges­tion, and dri­ve time delays is elim­i­nat­ed.”

Tail­wind Air oper­ates staffed lounges in both Man­hat­tan and Boston Har­bor, while at Col­lege Park, trav­el­ers have access to a ded­i­cat­ed wait­ing room, wifi, refresh­ments and an out­door ter­race for amaz­ing views of the his­toric air­field.

In Decem­ber 2021, Tail­wind Air became the exclu­sive launch cus­tomer for Airflow’s Mod­el 200 float­plane in the Mid-Atlantic and New Eng­land region, after sign­ing a deal with the eSTOL air­craft com­pa­ny for 20 air­craft.