\u00a0Air travel history was made in Macon-Bibb on Monday, June 9, when Contour Airways flew the first of four regularly scheduled weekly flights to Fort Lauderdale from Middle Georgia Regional Airport. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Aviation director Doug Faour said with the new round-trip flight to Fort Lauderdale, Macon is the only airport in Georgia, outside of Atlanta, that flies to two of the top 5 air markets in the country, South Florida and metropolitan Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0The flight on Monday to Baltimore also marked the resumption of that destination after having flown into Dulles for the past year. The new, non-stop 1-hour and 45-minute flight to Fort Lauderdale is on Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday. Depending on availability on the 30-seat plane, round-trip prices to South Florida can range between $200 to $300. Faour said Contour has an agreement with JetBlue where travelers can schedule a connecting flight to several destinations in the Caribbean. The Middle Georgia Regional Airport is undergoing a major transformation with an expanded runway and the construction of a new HighNote Aviation Terminal in the shape of a guitar, in recognition of Macon’s rich musical heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0Air travel history was made in Macon-Bibb on Monday, June 9, when Contour Airways flew the first of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,115],"class_list":["post-303168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303168","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=303168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}