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Ashevillians can now add another direct flight to a Florida beach.
On May 27, Allegiant Air rolled out a nonstop flight from Asheville to Destin, Florida. To celebrate the new route, the airline is offering one-way to Destin for as low as $44.
“Just in time for summer vacation, we are thrilled to expand service to one of our most sought after destinations,” Allegiant Senior Vice President Drew Wells said in the press release.
Flights from the Asheville Regional Airport to Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport will run twice weekly. Dates, times and fares can be found on Allegiant s website.
For travel by Aug. 15, flights must be purchased by May 29.
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CRESTVIEW In and next to Crestview, which already is Okaloosa County s largest and most-populated city, several subdivisions containing a total of more than 2,000 single-family homes are either being built or are in the late planning stages.
Many of the residents of all of those new houses will, of course, add to the traffic congestion on already busy roads such as State Road 85.
While the developers of some of the new subdivisions plan to upgrade streets next to their projects, far greater traffic relief is expected to come via the ongoing southwest Crestview bypass work and the planned widening of a long segment of SR 85.
Murray was accompanied by his wife and son on a morning flight from Nashville, Southwest s actual inaugural trip into Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport.
He said his flight had gone well, then smiled and shared a secret as he waited with dignitaries and members of the news media for the noontime arrival of the ceremonial inaugural flight, which came in from Dallas amid much fanfare and a water cannon salute. I had to do a go-around coming in, he said. So actually, I got to do the first two approaches.
Murray said he had to pass on his first landing effort to allow a military plane to take off from the runway Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport shares with Eglin Air Force Base.