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<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNew Contour Airlines route offers easier travel and avoids Atlanta traffic<\/p>\n
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MACON, Georgia (41NBC\/WMGT)-\u00a0 Excitement filled the Middle Georgia Regional Airport Tuesday morning as Macon-Bibb County celebrated its first nonstop flight to Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n
The new route through Contour Airlines will run four times a week, giving travelers more flexibility and allowing them to avoid the drive to Atlanta.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you can hear all the energy around me, hear the buzz going on, it\u2019s been this way for quite awhile, so I\u2019m very, very excited about our inaugural flight to Fort Lauderdale,\u201d said Mayor Lester Miller. \u201cIt seems like just yesterday we were talking about this new and exciting adventure that we\u2019re about to take on, and not just for people in Macon can fly other people can come enjoy what we enjoy each and every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
For many passengers, convenience is the biggest benefit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have to drive to Atlanta, go through TSA, that\u2019s about an hour or two hour drive depending on traffic,\u201d said traveler Arais Haigler. \u201cI can just come right here, ten minute ride to the airport and an hour and a half flight, I\u2019m in Fort Lauderdale.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another traveler echoed that ease of access.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt takes fifteen minutes to get here, and you park and it\u2019s easy,\u201d said traveler David Lucas.<\/p>\n
Tuesday also marked the return of nonstop service from Macon to Baltimore, a route leaders say the community has been asking for.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not a one way trip for anybody, people are going to be coming to Macon. It\u2019s a regular thing,\u201d Miller said. \u201cWe already started booking flights from Fort Lauderdale to Macon and vice versa. We\u2019ve sold over several hundred flights, which fills up about six planes worth, so we are very excited about the way things have taken off so far.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leaders say expanding air service not only makes travel easier, but also helps attract new businesses and visitors to the area.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Contour Airlines route offers easier travel and avoids Atlanta traffic MACON, Georgia (41NBC\/WMGT)-\u00a0 Excitement filled the Middle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[101813,101644,249,54669,251,250,101814,103246,126716,101816,101817,33975],"class_list":["post-301934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-baltimore-flights","tag-contour-airlines","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-flights","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-georgia-travel","tag-macon-airport","tag-macon-news","tag-macon-bibb-county","tag-middle-georgia-regional-airport","tag-nonstop-flights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301934","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=301934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}