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Northwest Airline commuter flights to Detroit to put Latrobe, Pa. on map.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2004

By Rebekah Scott, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 7--LATROBE, Pa. -- After months of eerie quiet, the whine and roar of commercial jet engines will echo again in the corridors of Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in April, when Northwest Airlines launches commuter service, filling the void US Airways left in July when it pulled the plug on its Latrobe-Pittsburgh shuttle.

"There's a lot of smiles walking round these hallways," said airport manager Gabe Monzo.

The exit of US Airways Express after nine years of service had left Westmoreland County without commercial passenger service, with the airstrip and terminal serving only private and corporate aircraft, Las Vegas charter flights and the occasional...

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