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Naples airport's prime carrier to fly away

By Steve Huettel, Times Staff Writer
Posted: Apr 30, 2008 07:33 PM


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Looks like the third time won't be the charm for tiny Naples Municipal Airport. After Delta Air Lines left in October, Continental Connection carrier Gulfstream International jumped in this year with three daily round-trip flights to Tampa and back with 19-seat turboprops. But after just two months, Continental announced this week that it too will disappear over the horizon June 11. The airline was attracting customers but saw the numbers going down into the summer. That leaves Naples without a major airline connection, and no one likely to fill the void considering the wobbly state of the airline business, said Naples Airport Authority chairman John Allen. "I think you'd be fighting upstream right now," he told the Naples Daily News.



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