BWI Airport Welcomes First Honor Flight In Over A Year, More Than 30 Veterans On Board

LINTHICUM, Md. (WJZ) — BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport welcomed the archetypal Honor Flight successful implicit a twelvemonth connected Wednesday.

More than 30 veterans on with guests arrived connected the Southwest Airlines formation with a delegation from Honor Flight Kansas.

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The veterans are headed to DC to spot their memorials.

On the flight, determination were 2 veterans from WWII, 8 from the Korean War and 22 from the Vietnam War.

Officials said they were greeted by a radical of dedicated volunteers that enactment Honor Flights crossed the country.

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Earlier today, we saw our archetypal @HonorFlightNet accomplishment successful implicit a year.

More than 30 veterans, positive guests, arrived astatine BWI Marshall Airport via Honor Flight Kansas and @SouthwestAir. The radical volition sojourn memorials successful the Washington, DC country connected Thursday. #SceneAtBWI #MDOTscenes pic.twitter.com/kyRPaP1V26

— BWI Marshall Airport (@BWI_Airport) August 26, 2021

CBS Baltimore Staff