New nonstop flight to Pensacola from South Florida will save you time — and money

South Florida and Pensacola are now connected by a daily nonstop flight on Silver Airways.

What used to be a nine-hour drive north to Pensacola from South Florida is now a two-hour flight from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport as of Thursday.

The Fort Lauderdale-based airline is offering discount fares starting at $89 one-way at silverairways.com for travel on or before May 22, 2019, if you book before Feb. 28.

Silver Airways’ Pensacola-bound flights depart from FLL at 4:30 p.m. all days except Saturday, when the flight departs at 4:20 p.m. Return flights depart from Pensacola at 7 a.m. all days except Saturday, when the flight departs at 6:50 a.m.

This story was originally published February 14, 2019 at 1:01 PM.

Taylor Dolven

Miami Herald

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Taylor Dolven is a business journalist who has covered the tourism industry at the Miami Herald since 2018. Her reporting has uncovered environmental violations of cruise companies, the impact of vacation rentals on affordable housing supply, safety concerns among pilots at MIA’s largest cargo airline and the hotel industry’s efforts to delay a law meant to protect workers from sexual harassment.