In April, Contour Airlines announced that flights from Macon to Fort Lauderdale would begin in June. Now, they’re set to soar on Tuesday, June 9.<\/p>\n
MACON, Ga. \u2014 The first Contour Airline flights from Macon’s Middle Georgia Regional Airport will take to the skies Tuesday<\/a>, offering the first flight for locals to take a chance to head down south, or for some to take a trip to Macon.<\/p>\n According to the Middle Georgia Regional Airport’s flight schedule, a flight from Macon to Fort Lauderdale in Florida will take off at 9:40 a.m. on Tuesday, June 9.<\/p>\n This new flight is with Contour Airlines, which announced back in April plans for a flight to go from Macon to Fort Lauderdale starting in June. They also announced plans for a Macon to Baltimore flight.<\/p>\n The airport’s Director of Aviation, Doug Faour, previously told 13WMAZ that these flights will make a big impact for the airport and the Central Georgia community.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Attract more operations here, potentially more economic growth, more businesses that could operate out of here on a larger scale,” Faour said.<\/p>\n While Countour Airlines has new flights taking off from Macon, they did cancel one: the flight to Washington-Dulles. Instead, the airline swapped flights to the DC metro area to Baltimore’s Thurgood Marshall airport.\u00a0<\/p>\n