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Southwest Airlines To Leave Dayton

WYSO | By Jess Mador

Published January 4, 2017 at 5:57 PM EST

Dayton officials are reacting to news that Southwest Airlines is leaving the Dayton International Airport in June of 2017.

In a press release, Dayton Director of Aviation Terrence Slaybaugh says Southwest's announcement is part of a growing trend concentrating airline service in larger hub markets.

Southwest Airlines has been in Dayton since 2012 after the acquisition of AirTran. Southwest meanwhile has announced eight additional daily flights to the Cincinnati airport Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG).

For more information, go to DaytonOhio.gov.

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Jess Mador

Jess Mador comes to WYSO from Knoxville NPR-station WUOT, where she created an interactive multimedia health storytelling project called TruckBeat, one of 15 projects around the country participating in AIR's Localore: #Finding Americainitiative. Before TruckBeat, Jess was an independent public radio journalist based in Minneapolis. She’s also worked as a staff reporter and producer at Minnesota Public Radio in the Twin Cities, and produced audio, video and web stories for a variety of other news outlets, including NPR News, APM, and PBS television stations. She has a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She loves making documentaries and telling stories at the intersection of journalism, digital and social media.

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