Nonstop Service to from Jacksonville to Bahamas to Begin

Regularly scheduled international flights will return Friday to Jacksonville International Airport with a new nonstop flight to the Bahamas.

Morgan Miller, general manager of Craig Air Center –a charter service and fixed base operator for Craig Air Field- said the company’s 19-passenger Beechcraft B1900 will take off at 8:30 a.m.

The plane will then leave Marsh Harbor at 2:30 p.m. and return to Jacksonville at 4 p.m., according to the Craig Air Center Web site. The schedule will be repeated every Friday and every Sunday.

There also will be two regular flights a week from St. Augustine to the Abacos on Mondays and Thursdays, Miller said.

The flights on both days are scheduled to leave St. Augustine at 11:30 a.m., arrive at Marsh Harbor at 1 p.m.; and then leave to return to St. Augustine at 2:30, arriving at 4:45, according to the site.

The return flights to St. Augustine will make a customs stop at Daytona Beach, but all Jacksonville flights are nonstop. The St. Augustine flights begin next week, Miller said.