{"id":236412,"date":"2026-03-25T21:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/236412\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:21:07","slug":"new-airline-taking-over-flights-at-merced-regional-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/236412\/","title":{"rendered":"New airline taking over flights at Merced Regional Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A new airline is taking over service at the Merced Regional Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Contour Airlines will offer flights to Las Vegas and Los Angeles (LAX) starting on July 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">From there, Contour has partnerships with Alaska, American and United to offer connecting flights to destinations around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Contour operates using jet aircraft able to hold 30 passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;This is a major milestone for Merced and the future of our airport,&#8221; said Mayor Matthew Serratto in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The city says these flights will help provide an economic boost and more travel opportunities for the Merced community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Air service in Merced is supported, in part, by federal Essential Air Service funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tickets go on sale starting April 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The current air service provider in Merced, Advanced Air, will continue to operate until June 30.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A new airline is taking over service at the Merced Regional Airport. Contour Airlines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[106755,106753,112,114,113,106754,106752,17245,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-236412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-106755","9":"tag-contour-airlines","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-los-angeles-vegas","14":"tag-merced-regional-airport","15":"tag-new-flights","16":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}