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 Message was posted: 06:27 Oct 21st, 2006     
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TUNICA, Miss. - Airport officials in Tunica are searching for a replacement for service to Atlanta.

Boston-Maine Airways, flying as Pan Am Clipper Connection, stopped its thrice-weekly service this month after losing key routes out of Atlanta.

Since May, Boston-Maine had been using Boeing 727s to fly 70 to 80 passengers per flight from Atlanta to Tunica in partnership with several casinos, which guaranteed a set number of seats.

Traffic was starting to pick up, including passengers driving from Memphis for the Atlanta flight, said Clifton Johnson, Tunica County administrator.

"We are out there soliciting for other carriers," he said, "and not just to replace the Atlanta flight but to get scheduled service from a number of cities."

A consortium made up of casino representatives and county leaders hopes to have a replacement sometime in 2007.

"We've landed 16,000 passengers in the first 10 months of this year," said Webster Franklin, president and chief executive of the Tunica Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Most of the business flew in on the 131-seat charter Harrah's Entertainment sponsors, now averaging 1.3 flights a day. It began the service last November.

Until then, the Tunica airport, which opened in 2003, had never served a plane with more than 30 passengers.

While the Pan Am decision comes as a blow, the consortium recently asked the state's congressional delegation for enough money to extend the runway from 7,000 feet to 8,500.

"We're also planning a terminal building, but we would like to build a terminal around an airline's needs," Franklin said.

The airport opened a 20,000-square-foot hangar this fall, designed to store customer planes overnight and in bad weather.

"It turned out, we've had such interest from the commercial side, we're now trying to hold a third to a half of the space for commercial purposes," said Cliff Nash, airport director.

The hangar was built on a $2.5 million bond issue through the county, part of $33 million invested in the airport since it opened.





Casinos seeking replacement for Pan Am 727 service
 Message was posted: 03:10 Oct 22nd, 2006     
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I thought Pan Am went out of business about 15 years ago. Was I wrong? Maybe I'm just confusing it with another airline.





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 Message was posted: 12:18 Oct 23rd, 2006     
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LOL! I thought the same thing too, but I swear this is a recent news piece. Hey, maybe they can get TWA or ValuJet to replace Pan Am





Casinos seeking replacement for Pan Am 727 service
 Message was posted: 12:03 Oct 23rd, 2006     
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Well I'm glad I wasn't the only one that thought that. I felt a little silly there for a minute. I know it's a recent article, that's why it surprised me. I went on vacation with my parents and we flew on Pan Am. It was shortly after that trip that I would've sworn I heard the airline shut down. I remember it because it was the smoothest flight I was ever on. I said I liked Pan Am because they didn't have turbulence. LOL





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 Message was posted: 05:14 Oct 23rd, 2006     
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Boston-Maine Airways, flying as Pan Am Clipper Connection, stopped its thrice-weekly service this month after losing key routes out of Atlanta.

Yeah, I don't think that they are talking about the same one... --- Boston Maine Airway's "Pan Am Clipper Connection" -- then the author of the article keeps mentioning it as Pan Am ... a little confusing.





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