After two years of searching, looks like Hickory has found an airline that’s willing to fly into their airport ? for $450,000 in incentives. Of course, nearly a half million doesn’t buy much these days as the carrier involved in Southeast Airlines, which doesn’t even fly on Tuesdays.

Good thing the incentives include money for advertising. Southeast had a brief run in Charlotte a few years with a single flight to St. Pete. They quickly left CLT; no one was flying them as they hadn’t bothered to advertise…