Southern Airways Express
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| Founded | 2013 | ||||||
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| Fleet size | 23 | ||||||
| Destinations | 20 | ||||||
| Parent company | Southern Airways Corporation | ||||||
| Headquarters | Memphis, TN | ||||||
| Key people | Stan Little (Chairman and CEO) | ||||||
| Website | http://www.iflysouthern.com | ||||||
Southern Airways Express is a commuter airline operating in the United States, headquartered in One Commerce Square in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee. It acts as a local service airline for several cities in the Southern United States and provides scheduled passenger service in the Mid-Atlantic Region subsidized by the US federal government under the Essential Air Service (EAS) program.
In its Gulf Region, Southern operates from executive terminals at primary airports, meaning that passengers are not required to check-in at the main passenger terminals, nor are they required to pass through TSA security screening. In Southern's Mid-Atlantic footprint, which includes the Metropolitan Washington Airports, passengers embark and disembark through the primary terminals.
Southern Airways Express was founded by Stan Little, an attorney based in Hernando, Mississippi. Little owned a Cessna 208 Caravan which he provided on loan before receiving US Department of Transportation air commuter authority and securing capital financing from unknown investors in order to start the airline. Southern Airways Express continues to operate Cessna Caravan aircraft and Little's personal pilot, Scott Honnoll, later became the airline's assistant chief pilot.
The airline started operations in June 2013, with its first flight from Olive Branch Airport near Memphis, Tennessee to Destin Executive Airport. Early destinations included University-Oxford Airport, Birmingham Shuttlesworth International Airport, New Orleans Lakefront Airport, and Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport. Due to the nature of the flights being public charters, the airline did not originally use TSA terminals. During the first year, the airline was run experimentally, operating different routes to test demand.
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