FYI post: Eastern IA Airport to offer non-stop flights to Atlanta

[CornField]

It won't start until June and there will only be one flight per day (leaving early, returning late), but it is a start. I believe the carrier doing this is Delta.

Eastern Iowa Airport - www.eiairport.org

[IA_Seth]

1. Sweet!

Maybe we are a real city after all!

I have yet to take advantage of any of our direct flights (lack of funds and all), so I shouldn't complain.

[CornField]

2. Yeah, same here.

We can fly out of Des Moines or Chicago and pay for storage of our vehicle for less than we can fly out of Cedar Rapids. It's crazy.

[3waygeek]

3. It's not quite in Iowa, but

AirTran offers 3 flights a day from Moline to Atlanta. They're a good low-cost carrier; much better than Southwest, IMHO.