By Richard Stradling, The News & Observer
The hundreds of people from the Pinehurst area who catch an airline flight each day must first drive to the closest commercial airport. For most of them, that’s an hour or more up U.S. 1 to Raleigh-Durham International.
Now business and visitors groups are mounting an effort to persuade an airline to begin daily nonstop flights to and from Moore County Airport, about 5½ miles from the front porch of the Pinehurst Resort.