It’s easier to fly across the United States from DFW International Airport than any other airport in the country.

With a new flight to St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Dec. 21, DFW passed Chicago O’Hare International Airport for having nonstop flights to the most domestic destinations, according to DFW International Airport and data from Airports Council International.

Passengers at DFW Airport can fly directly to 193 destinations nonstop in the United States, one more than Chicago O’Hare. Denver was close behind with 189 nonstop destinations, and Atlanta’s Hartfield-Jackson Airport had 171.

DFW’s new position atop the domestic destinations rankings came after the airport added 14 nonstop destinations in 2019 to cities such as Bakersfield, Calif., and Gainesville, Fla. Several of the new flights were seasonal additions, often serving vacation destinations such as Kalispell, Mont., and St. George, Utah.

DFW has been expanding in 2019 thanks to plans from Fort Worth-based American Airlines to add nearly 100 flights a day out of the airport. Every new destination from DFW in 2019 but one came on American Airlines, which controls about 85% of the traffic from the region’s largest airport.

Frontier was the only other airline with a seasonal flight to family-friendly vacation spot Branson, Mo.

DFW is the world’s fourth-busiest airport and handled about 75 million passengers in 2019, 5 million more than the year before.

Mike Rosa, who heads economic development for the Dallas Regional Chamber, said having an airport with a lot of nonstop connections is a major selling point for companies looking to relocate and expand to North Texas.

“It allows tremendous access to the country,” Rosa said. “One of the big motivators is that companies based here know they can get where they need to fast and easy."

DFW also added a handful of international stops over the last year, including flights to Dublin, Ireland, and Munich, Germany, direct from North Texas.

American Airlines has already announced six new destinations from DFW in 2020, including domestic routes to Fairbanks, Alaska, and Portland, Maine. There are also international routes planned to Auckland, New Zealand, and Tel Aviv, Israel.

Chicago still beats DFW for having the most combined domestic and international destinations among U.S. airports. O’Hare has 270 nonstop destinations worldwide, 10 more than DFW, according to Airports Council International. In all, DFW ranked sixth for total destinations, also behind airports for Paris, Frankfurt, Istanbul and Amsterdam.

To compare, Dallas Love Field has about 60 nonstop destinations, all of which are in the United States.