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Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Frontier expands service at Trenton-Mercer Airport, Here's the new nonstop route
Passengers flying out of Trenton Mercer Airport will now have a new vacation option after Frontier Airlines announced another travel route for this summer. Beginning July 10, the airline will offer nonstop service from Trenton-Mercer Airport in Ewing to Myrtle Beach International Airport in South Carolina. "People in Mercer, Bucks, Burlington, and nearby areas really enjoy the convenience of flying out of Trenton-Mercer Airport," Mercer County Executive Dan Benson said in a news release. "Just about every new Frontier flight has been a hit, and I'm sure this new nonstop to Myrtle Beach will be too. It's a great option for travelers and a boost for regional tourism." This new route to Myrtle Beach will be Frontier's sixth nonstop route from Trenton-Mercer including service to Atlanta, Orlando and West Palm Beach in Florida. Trenton-Mercer Airport welcomed 237, 477 passengers in 2024, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a 26% decrease from the previous year. Lacey Latch is the development reporter for the Bucks County Courier Times and The Intelligencer. She can be reached at LLatch@ This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: Frontier flights from Trenton to Myrtle Beach will take off July 10
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Nine killed in WW2 bomber crash remembered
Eighty years after nine airmen lost their lives in a bomber crash in Surrey, a service to commemorate them has been held. An American Air Force B-17G flying fortress bomber crashed during bad weather in Reigate while returning from a mission over Germany on 19 March 1945. On Wednesday, a service took place at the crash site on Reigate Hill. Tim Richardson, an RAF veteran and historian for the National Trust in Surrey, said: "The aircraft flew over Reigate, startled a bus queue, disappeared into the clouds covering the hill. A huge crash, silence and that was it." Flying in formation, the American crew had been told to split up to avoid collision and to make their way back to base after the weather "closed in" at the English Channel, he added. Mr Richardson said the reaction at the time was one of "horror". "The impact was so severe that all nine men died almost instantly," he told BBC Radio Surrey, adding that one crewman was found half a mile (0.8km) away from the plane wreck. The crash site is now marked by a pair of carved wing tips and cared for by the National Trust. Sculptor Roger Day completed the memorial on the North Downs Way for the 70th anniversary of the crash. It replicates the size of the destroyed aircraft and includes fuselage aluminium from the crash. He told Secret Surrey: "It's so tragic, because of their bravery obviously. But also being so near the end of the war, they could have been home, free." The service featured a wreath-laying ceremony, including one presented by US Air Attaché Lt Col Dan Benson, and the head boy and head girl of The Royal Alexandra and Albert School. HM Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey, Michael More-Molyneux, said Lt Col Dan Benson's attendance was a "powerful testament to our shared history". He added: "The presence of our cadets and scouts at the ceremony brought a sense of reverence and the passing on of history from one generation to the next." Follow BBC Surrey on Facebook, and on X. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@ or WhatsApp us on 08081 002250. D-Day nurse remembered 80 years after death The abseiling cleaners who dust off old RAF planes Funeral held for 'last' WW2 RAF bomber pilot
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Nine killed in WW2 bomber crash remembered
Eighty years after nine airmen lost their lives in a bomber crash in Surrey, a service to commemorate them has been held. An American Air Force B-17G flying fortress bomber crashed during bad weather in Reigate while returning from a mission over Germany on 19 March 1945. On Wednesday, a service took place at the crash site on Reigate Hill. Tim Richardson, an RAF veteran and historian for the National Trust in Surrey, said: "The aircraft flew over Reigate, startled a bus queue, disappeared into the clouds covering the hill. A huge crash, silence and that was it." Flying in formation, the American crew had been told to split up to avoid collision and to make their way back to base after the weather "closed in" at the English Channel, he added. Mr Richardson said the reaction at the time was one of "horror". "The impact was so severe that all nine men died almost instantly," he told BBC Radio Surrey, adding that one crewman was found half a mile (0.8km) away from the plane wreck. The crash site is now marked by a pair of carved wing tips and cared for by the National Trust. Sculptor Roger Day completed the memorial on the North Downs Way for the 70th anniversary of the crash. It replicates the size of the destroyed aircraft and includes fuselage aluminium from the crash. He told Secret Surrey: "It's so tragic, because of their bravery obviously. But also being so near the end of the war, they could have been home, free." The service featured a wreath-laying ceremony, including one presented by US Air Attaché Lt Col Dan Benson, and the head boy and head girl of The Royal Alexandra and Albert School. HM Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey, Michael More-Molyneux, said Lt Col Dan Benson's attendance was a "powerful testament to our shared history". He added: "The presence of our cadets and scouts at the ceremony brought a sense of reverence and the passing on of history from one generation to the next." Follow BBC Surrey on Facebook, and on X. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@ or WhatsApp us on 08081 002250. D-Day nurse remembered 80 years after death The abseiling cleaners who dust off old RAF planes Funeral held for 'last' WW2 RAF bomber pilot
BBC News
19-03-2025
- General
- BBC News
Nine killed in WW2 bomber crash on Reigate Hill remembered
Eighty years after nine airmen lost their lives in a bomber crash in Surrey, a service to commemorate them has been American Air Force B-17G flying fortress bomber crashed during bad weather in Reigate while returning from a mission over Germany on 19 March Wednesday, a service took place at the crash site on Reigate Richardson, an RAF veteran and historian for the National Trust in Surrey, said: "The aircraft flew over Reigate, startled a bus queue, disappeared into the clouds covering the hill. A huge crash, silence and that was it." Flying in formation, the American crew had been told to split up to avoid collision and to make their way back to base after the weather "closed in" at the English Channel, he Richardson said the reaction at the time was one of "horror"."The impact was so severe that all nine men died almost instantly," he told BBC Radio Surrey, adding that one crewman was found half a mile (0.8km) away from the plane crash site is now marked by a pair of carved wing tips and cared for by the National Trust. Sculptor Roger Day completed the memorial on the North Downs Way for the 70th anniversary of the replicates the size of the destroyed aircraft and includes fuselage aluminium from the told Secret Surrey: "It's so tragic, because of their bravery obviously. But also being so near the end of the war, they could have been home, free." 'Powerful testament to shared history' The service featured a wreath-laying ceremony, including one presented by US Air Attaché Lt Col Dan Benson, and the head boy and head girl of The Royal Alexandra and Albert Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey, Michael More-Molyneux, said Lt Col Dan Benson's attendance was a "powerful testament to our shared history".He added: "The presence of our cadets and scouts at the ceremony brought a sense of reverence and the passing on of history from one generation to the next."
