Corporate Flight Management (Smyrna) will commence its own scheduled passenger operations on March 15 with multiple daily return flights between Nashville International and Tupelo. Flights operate on-board Jetstream 31 aircraft.
The route is an Essential Air Services (EAS) contract awarded to the carrier in December last year after previous operator SeaPort Airlines (2008) (Portland International) withdrew citing a flightcrew shortage.
Until now, CFM had operated as an ACMI/charter specialist employing a fleet of four Jetstream 41s, one CRJ200, three Saab 340Bs (all of which are in service for Fly GLO (New Orleans International)), Jetstream 32s, and a variety of smaller fixed-wing turboprop and jet aircraft.
