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Contour Airlines CEO Matt Chaifetz, center, greets passengers as they exit the plane following the company’s first jet service flight for Tupelo in April 2019.

 Thomas Wells | Buy at PHOTOS.DJOURNAL.COM

TUPELO • After hitting a record number of boardings at Tupelo Regional Airport in May, boardings last month totaled 1,315. While it was a drop from the 1,429 logged a month earlier, the figure still is the second-most for Contour Airlines since it began service in April 2016.

For the first six months of the year boardings at TRA stand at 7,339 – a nearly 41% increase compared to the same period in 2018.

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