Barkley Airport seeks coastal flight route (wpsdlocal6.com)

Barkley Regional Airport is pursuing a new nonstop flight to a beach destination, narrowing options to five or ten locations in states like Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana. The airport gathered 7,500 survey responses and 2,000 pledge signatures to demonstrate demand to airlines for this at-risk service. Unlike the existing federally funded Chicago and Houston routes operated by SkyWest, the proposed coastal flight would require local subsidy efforts.