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American Airlines Adds New Flights from Dallas to Columbus
American Airlines (AA) announced plans to launch a service between Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and Golden Triangle Regional Airport (GTR) in Mississippi.
Memphis isn’t a hub anymore. Getting a flight, and another airline, to Dallas is awesome, even if it is American. Having to take two connectors just to get to a hub won’t work.
No kidding. Dallas is the single best opportunity for GTR right now. The DFW metro is over 8 million and will pass Chicago in the next decade or so as the 3rd largest only behind LA and New York. It's home to more than 20 Fortune 500 companies. And DFW Airport is the most central major airport in the US and is #2 in the US and 5 in the world in size as if 2024.
This is incredibly dumb. A flight to DFW is a game changer. Great day for MSU.
Makes sense. I would expect a stinky old pu$sy POS Goat to ride a goatholder airline to the illegal immigrant capital of the world.
Jokes on you, I switched from Delta to American and the planes I take are so much nicer.And only for $1000 you can flight American's luxury flight
Drive your Genespage asss from Memphis to Starkville.
TLDR — The chances of Starkville getting a Target just increased by 150 percent.
Look — GTR needs at least one flight going westbound….sheeshTLDR — The chances of Starkville getting a Target just increased by 150 percent.
But Statler, Waldorf, and @Mr. Cook would say a 150 percent increase from Zero is still Zero…
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(seriously though, this is good and gives GTR a chance to move the needle… the big thing: will people and businesses buy tickets?)
I did, and I realized it immediately. I decided to leave it. I think the refs were all about making sure we didn’t cover. Just me.
Contour to Dallas was either $119 or $159 depending on the day. This was about a week ahead, booking sooner might be cheaper. For $199 on the return flight I can change flights up to 60 minutes prior to departure with no additional charges. I’ll need that if I run into any weather delays at all.
I wish Contour flew out of more places in Mississippi other than Tupelo and Greenville. Someplace further south would be nice — and I’m talking about GTR…
Contour is only flying to Tupelo and Greenville because they are EAS airports, which means the federal government subsidizes those flights.
That’s good to know.
Low cost carriers are called that for a reason. Don’t use them. Trust me.
Contour only does subsidized flights. GTR pays its way, unlIke Tupelo.
I usually don’t. I look at them as alternative options or if they have really specific routes.
Delta flew to Dallas from GTR until they disbanded their Dallas Hub in 2004ish….
Correct, and if you are resigned to the idea that Jackson has no future, then all we really have left to do is hope the GT continues to grow and that we can begin to recruit out-of-state students (and businesses). This opens up the whole west to us.
Dallas is pretty easy as far as big airports go. The tram is easy and the terminals are all the same layout. It’s a very good connection for GTR. I fly out of Memphis a few times a year. We connect to Dallas quite often. Memphis is easy to get around but like others have stated you’ll have to connect to a hub to get to most places.
I don’t see Jackson turning things around any time soon. I think the best hope is to grow places like the 3 college towns, the Memphis suburbs, Tupelo, and the Coast in order to get Mississippi on a better track.
Nor do I.
Yeah, that's what attracted that noted Mississippi company, Toyota, to Tupelo.
Memphis?... my man... below is a link showing all direct flights from MEM. Most of them are once a day and many are only bi-weekly and on scab airlines.
