Southwest adds nonstop Minneapolis flight via BNA

January 5, 2017

Nashville Post

Nashville International Airport (BNA) announced Thursday that Southwest Airlines will begin daily nonstop service to Minneapolis and will add an additional flight to Dallas (now five times daily), San Antonio (three times daily) and St. Louis (three times daily).

The airline will also add a Saturday flight to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood “to accommodate additional connections to international destinations such as the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America,” according to a release.

The new flights begin June 4 and tickets are now available for purchase. Southwest Airlines’ seasonal, daily direct flight to Seattle also resumes June 4.

Southwest will have 99 daily departures from BNA this summer, a record according to Rob Wigington, president and CEO of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority.

“Nashville business travelers have been asking for more convenient flight times to and from Minneapolis. We are thrilled Southwest Airlines has once again delivered,” Tommy Lewis, chair of the Nashville Air Service Coalition and senior vice president of Change Healthcare, said in the release. “There is considerable connective tissue between Minneapolis and Nashville in the health care industry. It is essential to have convenient and affordable air service connecting leading health care regions.”