Thursday, June 19, 2014

New airline could be in Pine Belt by year’s end

A new carrier has been recommended to the United States Department of Transportation to provide commercial service to Hattiesburg-Laurel Regional Airport.

If accepted, ExpressJet Airlines would provide 12 round-trip flights a week connecting Hattiesburg-Laurel and Meridian with Dallas-Fort Worth. The routes would operate under American Airlines’ umbrella as an American Eagle connector on a 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet 200.

ExpressJet’s bid would require a combined Essential Air Service subsidy of about $7.8 million from the two markets.

Hattiesburg-Laurel has been serviced the past two years by Silver Airways, which connected to Atlanta.

But Silver submitted notice in April to the DOT that it intended to pull out of its Mississippi markets including Hattiesburg-Laurel, Meridian, Tupelo and Greenville, as well as Muscle Shoals, Ala. The airline had received a combined EAS subsidy of about $7 million from the five markets.


Source:   http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com

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