SYRACUSE — Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR) and Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) are looking ahead to late spring of 2024 when Delta plans to relaunch daily, year-round, nonstop flights from SYR to Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport (MSP). The daily direct flights between SYR and MSP are scheduled to restart June 7, 2024, providing Central […]
SYRACUSE — Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR) and Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) are looking ahead to late spring of 2024 when Delta plans to relaunch daily, year-round, nonstop flights from SYR to Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport (MSP).
The daily direct flights between SYR and MSP are scheduled to restart June 7, 2024, providing Central New York air travelers with more options, the Syracuse Regional Airport Authority (SRAA) announced on Nov. 6.
Atlanta, Georgia–based Delta Air Lines last offered this route in March 2020, the SRAA noted in a news release.
Nonstop flights from Syracuse to Minneapolis–St. Paul are scheduled to depart Syracuse at about 6:45 a.m. with an estimated arrival time into MSP at 8:15 am (central time).
Delta’s Airbus 319 aircraft with 132 seats in a three-class configuration will service the route, per the announcement.
This air service will provide “convenient connections to key” western markets, including San Francisco and San Jose in California, as well as Boise, Idaho, where Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) is headquartered, SRAA noted.
Micron Technology plans to build a massive semiconductor campus at the White Pine Commerce Park in the town of Clay.
The flights will also provide “convenient” connectivity to Delta’s MSP – Tokyo, Japan route, which SRAA contends will be additionally beneficial to Micron “and other members of our Central New York business community.”
“The resumption of daily, year-round, nonstop service from Syracuse to MSP is a huge win for both our business and leisure travelers,” Jason Terreri, SRAA executive director, said in the release. “Central New York’s travel demand — especially westward — continues to soar and the addition of this daily service helps meet that demand.”
Flights on the resumed route went on sale over the weekend and can be viewed, along with specific inbound and outbound schedules, at Delta.com, SRAA said.
“Delta’s new service from Syracuse to our Minneapolis hub next summer is only the latest proof point of our commitment to the state of New York,” Chuck Imhof, Delta’s VP of New York sales, said in the SRAA release. “With the addition of this nonstop service to MSP, Delta will operate 16 daily flights from Syracuse to our hubs across the East Coast in summer 2024, connecting customers in Central New York with hundreds of destinations around the world.”
The announcement of the resumed Delta flights to Minneapolis–St. Paul came about three weeks after the SRAA announced that low-cost carrier Sun Country Airlines plans to launch twice-weekly seasonal flights from Syracuse to the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport, starting next June 6 and running through Sept. 1.
SRAA also noted that Central New York travelers can fly directly to 30 destinations via nonstop flights with nine airlines now operating regularly scheduled flights at SYR.