By 2000 , Fort Wayne International Airport was handling record traffic . The record from 2000 was not broken until 2016 . American Eagle resumed nonstop flights to Dallas/Fort Worth that year , which continue . Air Canada Express began a short-lived service to Toronto . The following year , Fort Wayne International Airport 's traffic dropped after the September 11 attacks . The slump continued for several years , prolonged by an ongoing fare war between Southwest Airlines , ATA Airlines , and others at Indianapolis International Airport , two and a half hours from Fort Wayne . In late 2003 , ATA Connection began service from Fort Wayne International Airport to Chicago/Midway , the first low-cost carrier to serve the airport . Demand for the flights reached the point where airport management bought the on-site Days Inn to make room for more parking . ATA briefly switched the flight 's destination to Indianapolis before closing their regional division completely in early 2005 . US Airways also ended service to Pittsburgh , their lone service from the airport , as part of a broader dehubbing of Pittsburgh . US Airways left the airport , as the discontinued Pittsburgh service was not transferred to the airline 's other hubs in Philadelphia or Charlotte . However , nine years later after the merger of American Airlines and US Airways , Fort Wayne International Airport got service to both hubs . Around the same time as the departure of US Airways from the airport , Northwest stopped using mainline aircraft on their Detroit flights ; unlike US Airways , NWA continued to serve the Fort Wayne to Detroit route using regional jets and turboprops . Delta planned on introducing service to Orlando from the airport in 2005 ; however , the flights were canceled days before the planned launch as the result of Delta 's Chapter 11 bankruptcy
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Fort Wayne International Airport