From a wire service story yesterday:
Boston-Maine Airways will offer scheduled service three days a week beginning May 2 between Tunica and Atlanta, feeding casinos here with what locals hope will be planeloads of guests.
(Boston-Maine Airlines does business as the third or fourth incarnation of Pan Am.)
I haven’t had the (dubious?) honor of visiting Tunica since gambling was legalized there, despite having lived in Memphis for many years. The idea of what used to be the poorest place in the Continental U.S., home of the infamous Sugar Ditch Alley, having scheduled passenger jet service is just mind-boggling to me.
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1 James Bowman // 23 Mar 2006 at 10:56 am
I visited Tunica about a couple of years ago with my wife. We went there because of the gambling, and to visit a friend of ours who lives in Mississippi. And let me say, Tunica is a whole lotta nothing. The casinos, the hotels, are surrounded by nothing. No fast food, no convenience stores, no nothing.
Perhaps the arrival of visitors can help Tunica. I’ll let my wife know if she wants another gambling jaunt.