Photos for Headline Surfer / ABOVE: a passenger plane is shown taking off from Daytona International Airport. BELOW: Joanne Magley, spokeswoman for DAB is shown in the take-out quote. LEFT: Entrance to Daytona International Airport in Daytona Beach, Florida.
By HENRY FREDERICK / Headline Surfer
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Daytona Beach International Airport has been awarded a small community air service development program grant from the U. S. Department of Transportation.
The $500,000 grant will be used to recruit new nonstop services to the Chicago area.
"The grant is an important resource that will be used to help recruit air service for the needs of the community and the region," DAB spokeswoman Joanne Magley told Headline Surfer. "A previous SCASDP grant was awarded to Daytona Beach International Airport in 2002 for service to Newark, NJ, by Continental Airlines. After that grant was completed, Continental extended its agreement with the airport."
"The grant is an important resource that will be used to help recruit air service for the needs of the community and the region," DAB spokeswoman Joanne Magley told Headline Surfer. "A previous SCASDP grant was awarded to Daytona Beach International Airport in 2002 for service to Newark, NJ, by Continental Airlines. After that grant was completed, Continental extended its agreement with the airport."
Daytona Beach Airport Director Karen Feaster added, "This is exciting news for the airport and our entire community, and we thank the Department of Transportation for recognizing the critical needs for additional commercial air service in the Daytona Beach area.”
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About the Byline Writer: Henry Frederick is a member of the working press and publisher of Headline Surfer, the award-winning 24/7 internet news outlet launched in 2008 along the I-4 tourism corridor in greater Daytona Beach to Orlando from Lake Mary, Florida via HeadlineSurfer.com. Frederick has amassed 115 award-winning bylines in print & online. He earned his Master of Arts in New Media Journalism from Full Sail University in 2019. He was a breaking news reporter (metro cops & courts beat) for the Daytona Beach News-Journal for nearly a decade. And Before that worked the same beat for The Journal-News/Gannett Suburban Newspapers in Rockland/Westchester counties, NY, dating back to 1989. Having witnessed the execution of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Florida's death chamber and covering other high-profile cases such as the George Zimmerman murder trial, Frederick has appeared on national crime shows on Discovery ID, Reelz, and the Oxygen Network series "Snapped" for his analysis. AWJ: