After adding new routes and direct flights over the past couple of years, Sun Country Airlines quietly announced it was cutting service from Minnesota to five cities starting next year.
We often claim Delta Air Lines as a Minnesota airline, seeing its hub at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) is the second-largest in the country. But when it comes to airlines actually headquartered here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, that award would have to go to Sun Country Airlines. And they just made a quiet announcement regarding service to five cities starting in 2025.
Sun Country has been a household name here in the North Star State for quite a while. Industry site, Simple Flying, notes that Sun Country was founded 42 years ago, back in 1982, and started offering flights the next year, in 1983. Many of those first flights were from the Twin Cities to Las Vegas, before Vegas was the huge tourist mecca it is today…