FROM DELTA BUILDING FLIGHT SCHEDULES AROUND OHIO STATE TO OHIO RANKED NUMBER ONE MIDWEST BUSINESS STATE BY 650 CEOS: Delta Adds Dedicated Columbus Nonstop Flights for Ohio State at Iowa, UCLA, and Texas While Spring 2026 Brings Rooftop Bars, Polynesian Tiki, and South Asian Sweets to Central Ohio, and Chief Executive Magazine Ranks Ohio Number Seven Nationally After Climbing From Number 41 in 2011
Columbus sports, dining, and economic data reveals a city whose gravitational pull keeps strengthening — Delta Air Lines adding dedicated nonstop flights between Columbus and Iowa City, Los Angeles, and Austin specifically timed around Ohio State football games as part of 44 new routes and 27 aircraft upgrades for the 2026 college football season, Central Ohio's spring dining wave bringing Powell's first rooftop bar, a downtown Polynesian tiki concept, South Asian sweets in Dublin, vegetarian Indian in Polaris, Mediterranean on Park Street, and an international bakery in the Short North, and Chief Executive magazine ranking Ohio number seven nationally and number one in the Midwest for business based on surveys of more than 650 CEOs — a climb from number 41 just fifteen years ago.
