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VPJ FLIES INTO NAPLES MUNICIPAL AIRPORT

East-coast Carrier Proposes Naples Flights to Tallahassee, Tampa and Marathon NAPLES, Fla. - Oct. 1, 2007 - Offering a return to the gracious era of air travel, Vintage Props & Jets has proposed new regional air service from Naples Municipal Airport to three Florida destinations.

Flights would include five daily flights to Tampa and three to the Florida Keys during the workweek, as well as two daily flights during the work week to Tallahassee. Weekend flights would be available as well, with service beginning Dec. 14 in VPJ's fleet of Beech King Air nine-passenger executive commuter airplanes.

In addition to filling a void in regional air service, the New Smyrna Beach-based airline will bring its 16-year tradition of personalized customer care to Naples travelers. Regular customers of the airline are often greeted by name, baggage is treated with the utmost care, and the airline maintains one of the best records of on-time departures and arrivals in Florida. The VPJ emphasis on friendly, gracious service makes the airline a good match for Naples Municipal Airport, where attention to customer care is still a chief concern.

"At a time when the airline industry as a whole is asking passengers to make do with less customer service, we're looking for carriers to serve the Naples community to a Naples standard. This new air service is really about restoring a more gracious era of air travel when passenger comfort was at the forefront of the business," said AnneElena Foster, director of communications for the Naples Airport Authority. "VPJ will be a great addition to our airport, and by flying Naples travelers to both a major hub where they can connect to anywhere, and these high-demand Florida markets, this will really move us toward our overall goal of providing more commercial service options for our community."

VPJ has operated scheduled commuter service for more than 16 years on Florida's east coast and now serves Daytona Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Melbourne and New Smyrna Beach as well as Marsh Harbour and Treasure Cay in the Bahamas. Flights out of Naples can be booked at www.vpj.com, "We're really excited about serving the Naples Municipal Airport as this has been a greatly underserved market," said Tom Crevasse, owner of VPJ.

"We're a family-run business focused on offering quality service. Naples will be a great fit for our company." More information about VPJ is available on the company's Web site at www.vpj.com.

Naples Municipal Airport - Originally an Army Air Corps field, the Naples Municipal Airport was one of the first airports in the country to offer regional commercial air service. Widely known as the "best little airport in the country," the NMA has operated profitably since 1969, when the Florida legislature created the City of Naples Airport Authority, the non-taxing, fully independent governing body entrusted with stewardship of the airport, and with preserving safe and lawful aviation access to the Naples community Distributed By: WRAGG & CASAS Public Relations Inc., 27499 Riverview Center Blvd, Suite 115, Bonita Springs, FL 34134 Heather Mikes/Kara Minoui, Phone: 239-444-1724 Fax: 239-444-1723, hmikes@wraggcasas.com, kminoui@wraggcasas.com 

AnneElena Foster

Director of Communications

Naples Municipal Airport

afoster@flynaples.com

239.643.0733