Airline to offer Louisville flight to Bahamas

An airline says it will begin a $99 nonstop flight from Louisville to a Caribbean island later this year.

Vision Airlines says there will be two weekly departures from Louisville International Airport to Grand Bahama Island beginning Nov. 3. The flights on a 148-seat Boeing 737 will take off at 7 p.m. on Thursdays and 3:35 p.m. on Sundays.

The airline also runs nonstop flights from Louisville to Atlanta, Destin and Fort Lauderdale in Florida.

The airline said in a statement that in the past, travel to Grand Bahama Island from Kentucky had been expensive and time-consuming.