{"id":233223,"date":"2026-07-01T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233223\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:00:11","slug":"southern-airways-fights-to-keep-bradford-pittsburgh-route-amid-rivals-jet-proposal-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233223\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Airways fights to keep Bradford-Pittsburgh route amid rival\u2019s jet proposal \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Linda Lake flies several times a year between her home outside Bradford to Pittsburgh International Airport, allowing her to either visit friends and family in the Pittsburgh region or connect to bigger planes for trips elsewhere around the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">It\u2019s been at least a dozen years that Lake has boarded the nine-passenger single-engine Cessna Grand Caravans, first on Sun Air Express and then Southern Airways Express, at Bradford Regional Airport. The Smethport resident has come to depend on the connection, not just for the convenience but also the price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s comfortable. It\u2019s an hour flight time from the time you get in the airplane in Bradford until you\u2019re walking off of it in Pittsburgh,\u201d Lake said. \u201cThat\u2019s a lot better than driving 3.5-4 hours to Pittsburgh.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/06\/29\/southern-airways-bradford-airport.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/06\/29\/southern-airways-bradford-airport.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Linda Lake flies several times a year between her home outside Bradford to Pittsburgh International Airport,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[100737,38646,14856,38647,30578,3855,14638,5603,100738,8590,100739,24607,21341,16879,44614,92718,11408,11410,100740,14782,12645,38658,71775,100741,61721,100742,13308,73,75,74,27745,100743,100744,7803,2155,4491,13524,38662,100745,11834],"class_list":["post-233223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-208b","tag-aircraft","tag-airline","tag-airliner","tag-airplane","tag-airport","tag-arrival","tag-aviation","tag-cessna","tag-chicago","tag-cockpit","tag-commercial","tag-commuter","tag-copy-space","tag-engine","tag-express","tag-flight","tag-fly","tag-grand-caravan","tag-jet","tag-journey","tag-landing","tag-landing-gear","tag-negative-space","tag-ohare","tag-ord","tag-passenger","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-plane","tag-puddle-jumper","tag-southern-airways","tag-tourism","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-trip","tag-vacation","tag-wheels-down","tag-wing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}