Middle Georgia Regional Airport<\/a> in Macon.<\/p>\nIn a media release, Macon-Bibb County said that the airline will be adding a new route to Fort Lauderdale, and bringing back nonstop flights to Baltimore.<\/p>\n
They said that starting June 9, these flights will be available.<\/p>\n
The new, nonstop flights to Fort Lauderdale will fly into the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Macon-Bibb County said in the release.<\/p>\n
They said this route comes as a “direct response” to the community’s demand for access to Florida’s beaches and cruise ports.<\/p>\n
They said that flights to Fort Lauderdale will run on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. These flights will leave Macon at 9:40 a.m. and get to Fort Lauderdale at 11:25 a.m.<\/p>\n
The return flights from Fort Lauderdale are at noon on those same days, according to the release.<\/p>\n
The flights to Baltimore will be from the Middle Georgia Regional Airport to the Baltimore\/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.\u00a0<\/p>\n
County spokesperson Chris Floore confirms that the Baltimore route will be replacing the route to Washington Dulles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The county said that the return of the flight will reconnect Macon travelers with a “popular and convenient gateway” to the Mid-Atlantic.<\/p>\n
“Contour previously operated service to Baltimore and is thrilled to bring this route back in response to strong local interest,” the county said in the release.<\/p>\n
Flights to Baltimore will be every day, with a second flight on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.<\/p>\n
The daily flights will depart Macon at 2:35 p.m. and arrive in Baltimore at 4:30 p.m., and the extra flights on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays will leave Macon at 7:15 a.m. and get to Baltimore at 9:10 a.m.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the return flights from Baltimore will be at 5:05 p.m., daily, and at 9:45 a.m. for the extra three flights per week.<\/p>\n
The press release does not say how much the flights will cost.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They also said that Contour Airlines will use their 30-seat regional jet for these flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macon-Bibb County said that Contour Airlines will be adding a new route to Fort Lauderdale, and bringing back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-225035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}