Technicians from Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines and rental car companies are expected to soon begin installing equipment into their individual spaces, with computer systems in two weeks and furniture in four weeks,

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With fewer than 50 days till a May 23 opening, construction on the main terminal building of the Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport is now about 92 percent complete, and as Bates maneuvers around the interior, a visitor can begin to see the finished product through her eyes.

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The new Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport opens May 23, but the work to bring high-wage jobs to Northwest Florida is just taking off: The airport’s economic impact is still years away, officials said Thursday.

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The first new international airport in the United States in more than decade is set to open in May near Panama City, Fla., a community of 37,000 people on the state’s panhandle. That is no small feat given the environmental, regulatory and financial hurdles involved in building runways and terminals, as well as community opposition to planes flying overhead. But the airport, Northwest Florida Beaches

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Delta Airlines has announced it will add two additional flights per day with larger aircraft when the new Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport opens in late May.
Randy Curtis, airport executive director, said the new jets will be McDonnell Douglas MD-88 models, which have a seating capacity if 142.
Delta currently uses its connector service, Atlantic Southeast [...]

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