Solar Nation is betting that winter-weary flyers from the Higher Midwest might be prepared for a warm-weather trip by early 2025.
The Minneapolis-based provider unveiled this week its newest schedule extension, which incorporates two new routes to the Caribbean. Particularly, Solar Nation will join Milwaukee Mitchell Worldwide Airport (MKE) with Punta Cana Worldwide Airport (PUJ) within the Dominican Republic and Sangster Worldwide Airport (MBJ) in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
The Punta Cana route begins Dec. 26, 2024, with twice-weekly service, whereas the Montego Bay route begins Jan. 25, 2025, with two weekly flights.
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Solar Nation will take pleasure in a monopoly on all its nonstop worldwide routes from Milwaukee, which ought to assist the airline fill its planes.
Moreover, the provider will resume service from MKE to Mexico’s Cancun Worldwide Airport (CUN), a route that it final operated throughout the earlier winter season via April 2024, Cirium schedules present.
In whole, Solar Nation will function eight routes from Milwaukee. This consists of the aforementioned worldwide service — the biggest of any provider in Milwaukee — together with routes to Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Orlando and Fort Myers, Florida.
The brand new Milwaukee routes come as Solar Nation extends its schedule via April 29, 2025, giving flyers loads of time to start out planning their winter and spring break holidays.
The airline says this schedule from its hometown airport and key hub, Minneapolis-St. Paul Worldwide Airport (MSP), is its largest ever.
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Solar Nation will resume all seasonal MSP routes throughout the winter whereas additionally boosting capability on current routes by including frequencies. (The airline particularly highlighted extra service to Aruba, Grand Cayman, Punta Cana and Roatan, Honduras.)
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The airline will fly to greater than 55 locations from MSP subsequent winter, most of that are standard seaside locations in Florida, the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico. Solar Nation is completely centered on flying leisure passengers who’re heading out on trip and visiting household and associates. These new routes are consistent with the provider’s community technique and seemingly properly suited to succeed.
“Solar Nation is constant to develop our schedule from MSP to the nice and cozy locations which can be hottest with our prospects. These are the locations our prospects love to go to with flights on extra days of the week via the season. We’re constructing on what works properly for us and our vacationers,” mentioned Grant Whitney, senior vp and chief income officer at Solar Nation, in a press release.
Moreover, although Solar Nation has traditionally operated on a funds provider mannequin, the airline debuted a brand new cell app simply this week. The app is designed to spice up the airline’s digital capabilities and make it simpler for vacationers to guide journey and self-service their reservations.
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