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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