Tailwind Air launches seaplane service from Manhattan to Washington DC Dulles Airport

Tail­wind Air claims it has launched the fastest ser­vice between Man­hat­tan and Wash­ing­ton DC Dulles Inter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Tail­wind Air CEO Alan Ram said: “The abil­i­ty to take off from a pri­vate ter­mi­nal at a major inter­na­tion­al air­port and land on the water in Man­hat­tan will be a time-sav­ing ben­e­fit for our cus­tomers.”

Strad­dling Fair­fax and Loudoun coun­ties, Wash­ing­ton Dulles Inter­na­tion­al Air­port offers quick access to the Belt­way, Capi­tol and Wash­ing­ton DC areas with flights to/from Man­hat­tan of approx­i­mate­ly 75–85 min­utes.

Sched­uled ser­vice began Octo­ber 14th, 2022, oper­at­ed by Cess­na Grand Car­a­vans fea­tur­ing two expe­ri­enced pilots, eight pre­mi­um econ­o­my leather seats, aisle and win­dow access, air-con­di­tion­ing and an abil­i­ty to land on water or at an air­port.

New York Sky­port (NYS) is Manhattan’s ded­i­cat­ed sea­plane base, locat­ed at the east­ern end of 23rd Street along the East Riv­er, which has a ded­i­cat­ed cli­mate-con­trolled lounge for pas­sen­gers with on-site park­ing.

Check-in cut­off is just 10 min­utes pri­or to depar­ture to reduce stress and deliv­er fast solu­tions on all routes. Tail­wind Air’s tur­bo­prop sea­plane fleet is less than five years old on aver­age, but Man­hat­tan Sky­port opened in 1936 and has been host­ing sea­plane trav­el for decades.

In addi­tion, sea­plane oper­a­tions have been part of the core trans­porta­tion land­scape of cities such as Seat­tle, Mia­mi, and Van­cou­ver for near­ly a hun­dred years. Tail­wind Air offers pre­paid books of 10, 20, and 50 tick­ets and also offers Fast Lane Club mem­ber­ship, whose mem­bers have access to dis­count­ed flights.

In August, Tail­wind Air announced a new des­ti­na­tion to Wash­ing­ton DC, where trav­el­ers may fly non­stop from NYS to Wash­ing­ton DC’s Col­lege Park Air­port in 80–90 min­utes.

Tail­wind Air Announces First-Ever Sea­plane Ser­vice to Wash­ing­ton DC

In Decem­ber 2021, Tail­wind Air was 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.

Air­flow and Tail­wind Air part­ner on world’s first amphibi­ous sea­plane to utilise dis­trib­uted elec­tric propul­sion