DESTIN — Southern Airways
Express will launch a new service for this year’s college football
season that will offer direct flights from Destin Airport to the games
of five SEC teams.
The Memphis-based airline offered limited
flights to some Southeastern Conference games last year. This year, the
airline will offer game-day flights to five Alabama Crimson Tide games,
10 Auburn Tigers games, four Arkansas Razorbacks games, four Florida
Gators games and all 12 of the Ole Miss Rebels’ games.
“This is
the college football region,” said Keith Sisson, chief operating officer
for Southern Airways Express. “When it comes to game day Saturdays, we
all have a religious and yet somehow unhealthy obsession with college
football.”
Southern Airways uses nine-seat turboprop Cessna Caravans with luxury executive-style seating for all its flights.
Most of the game-day flights will arrive two hours before kickoff and depart two hours after the end of the game.
“It’s
just a very convenient way to see a ball game, yet not have the expense
of a hotel room and deal with the traffic,” Sisson said.
Tickets
for the flights are on sale now and can be reserved by calling Southern
Airway’s call center at 1-800-329-0485. The round-trip fares will begin
at $298 per person.
Departure times for the flights have not
been set yet and won’t be until the week of the game when the TV
schedules are released and the game’s start time is finalized.
“The
matchups worked really well,” Sisson said. “You see these license tags
everywhere on cars that say ‘A house divided.’ We expect to have a plane
divided.
“I really think we’re going to see a lot of the plane
divided situations this year because of the matchups and the fan bases
that exist on the Emerald Coast for some of these teams that are going
to be playing against each other,” he added.
- Source: http://www.nwfdailynews.com
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