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Newport News/Williamsburg airport seeks grant to subsidize Dulles route

The Newport News-Williamsburg International Airport. (WYDaily/File photo)
The Newport News-Williamsburg International Airport. (WYDaily/File photo)

Newport News/Williamsburg Airport is hoping to add a flight connecting it to Dulles International Airport.

The Newport News airport currently has flights to and from Atlanta, Philadelphia and Charlotte, which connect the airport to hubs for Delta and American airlines.

A flight to Dulles in northern Virginia would give it access to a United Airlines hub and a slew of domestic and international flights serving the Washington, D.C., region.

The commission running the airport has applied for a federal grant to subsidize service to Dulles. Officials at Dulles support the application as well.

Newport News airport officials say the market exists for a connecting flight because many travelers in Hampton Roads will drive several hours to originate flights from Dulles.

John Mangalonzo
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John Mangalonzo ([email protected]) is the managing editor of Local Voice Media’s Virginia papers – WYDaily (Williamsburg), Southside Daily (Virginia Beach) and HNNDaily (Hampton-Newport News). Before coming to Local Voice, John was the senior content editor of The Bellingham Herald, a McClatchy newspaper in Washington state. Previously, he served as city editor/content strategist for USA Today Network newsrooms in St. George and Cedar City, Utah. John started his professional journalism career shortly after graduating from Lyceum of The Philippines University in 1990. As a rookie reporter for a national newspaper in Manila that year, John was assigned to cover four of the most dangerous cities in Metro Manila. Later that year, John was transferred to cover the Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines. He spent the latter part of 1990 to early 1992 embedded with troopers in the southern Philippines as they fought with communist rebels and Muslim extremists. His U.S. journalism career includes reporting and editing stints for newspapers and other media outlets in New York City, California, Texas, Iowa, Utah, Colorado and Washington state.

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