Video: Lowndes Supervisors Pledge $125,000 to GTRA

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LOWNDES COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) — With support from companies like PACCAR, Airbus Helicopters and Weyerhaueser that all have employees flying west, Golden Triangle Airport hopes to have a second airline offering westbound service to Dallas as early as this fall.

Lowndes County supervisors today pledged $125,000 as part of $500,000 in local money to help land the new service.

Starkville and Oktibbeha County are expected to follow suit next week and Columbus in early February.

The money, along with $1 million in federal money and airport breaks, would guarantee a minimum revenue stream for a new airline’s first year.

Hainsey says Delta hasn’t objected and consultants think GTR would pick up westbound business that’s now flying out of Jackson.

“We have all the support we need from the local community, and the numbers to show an airline here can be profitable,” Hainsey said.

Hainsey says a the airport only had to use a small part of a previous incentive package to get service to Memphis.