If you want to keep up with what is happening with the airline business through the local daily newspaper reporting outlets, you'll want to check out both the Panama City News Herald of Bay County and then the Northwest Florida Daily News based out of Okaloosa County. The Northwest Florida Daily News on Thursday, August 13, 2009 selected as their Section B Headline Story "US Airways bypasses Okaloosa" while the PC News Herald Wednesday, August 12, 2009 had a front page, top of the fold story of "Airport officials hopeful for low-cost carrier." South Walton and Walton County is situated between these two airports.
PCNH by Pat Kelly Panama City Beach -- Airport officials might be just weeks away from announcing the addition of a new low-cost air carrier to the Panama City-Bay County International Airport under construction near West Bay, officials said Tuesday. ... One of the carriers mentioned by TDC members Tuesday was Southwest Airlines, one of the possible carriers airport officials are trying to recruit...."
NWFDN by Thomas J. Monigan "After trying for several years to get direct flights to Washington, D.C., Greg Donovan of Northwest Florida Regional Airport learned Monday he had a lot more work to do.
"We've worked very hard on this issue," Donovan said after US Airways announced it had chosen Pensacola and Tallahassee for Flights to D.C. in 2010 over Northwest Florida Regional." ...
Perhaps the Walton Sun, in addition to focusing on South Walton and Walton County News, should add more Panama City, Bay County news to go with the Okaloosa news it is already filtering in. Currently, our news is quite fragmented and you don't get regional coverage reading just one daily news paper. There is a little cross over, but on some important issues such as airport development, you could miss the overall bigger picture if you don't read both dailies.
PCNH by Pat Kelly Panama City Beach -- Airport officials might be just weeks away from announcing the addition of a new low-cost air carrier to the Panama City-Bay County International Airport under construction near West Bay, officials said Tuesday. ... One of the carriers mentioned by TDC members Tuesday was Southwest Airlines, one of the possible carriers airport officials are trying to recruit...."
NWFDN by Thomas J. Monigan "After trying for several years to get direct flights to Washington, D.C., Greg Donovan of Northwest Florida Regional Airport learned Monday he had a lot more work to do.
"We've worked very hard on this issue," Donovan said after US Airways announced it had chosen Pensacola and Tallahassee for Flights to D.C. in 2010 over Northwest Florida Regional." ...
Perhaps the Walton Sun, in addition to focusing on South Walton and Walton County News, should add more Panama City, Bay County news to go with the Okaloosa news it is already filtering in. Currently, our news is quite fragmented and you don't get regional coverage reading just one daily news paper. There is a little cross over, but on some important issues such as airport development, you could miss the overall bigger picture if you don't read both dailies.
