Commercial air service returns to Jackson airport

Oct. 11, 2007

JACKSON, Tenn. - Jackson's McKellar-Sipes Regional Airport will have commercial flights again beginning Nov. 18. Billings, Mont.-based Big Sky Airlines will operate a daily flight to Cincinnati as a connection carrier for Delta Air Lines.

Commercial service at the airport was halted in March when the Federal Aviation Administration grounded the airport's previous carrier, Smyrna-based RegionsAir, for federal training violations.