{"id":302268,"date":"2026-06-10T06:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302268\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:56:17","slug":"duluth-international-airport-to-restore-service-to-fort-myers-florida-duluth-news-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302268\/","title":{"rendered":"Duluth International Airport to restore service to Fort Myers, Florida &#8211; Duluth News Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DULUTH \u2014 Sun Country Airlines is set to restore its nonstop service from Duluth International Airport to Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, Florida, starting Jan. 29, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The direct flights will be available twice per week through April 12. The schedule primarily features Monday and Friday departures, with select weeks offering service on Thursdays and Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to welcome Sun Country back to Duluth. The Fort Myers route has been a favorite for our travelers, and its return is great for our community,\u201d Duluth Airport Authority Executive Director Tom Werner stated in a news release. \u201cTo ensure this service returns year after year, it is crucial that the community demonstrates strong demand by choosing to fly local.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The continuation of this seasonal route directly responds to significant community demand for leisure travel destinations.<\/p>\n<p>\n                Our newsroom occasionally reports stories under a byline of &#8220;staff.&#8221; Often, the &#8220;staff&#8221; byline is used when rewriting basic news briefs that originate from official sources, such as a city press release about a road closure, and which require little or no reporting. At times, this byline is used when a news story includes numerous authors or when the story is formed by aggregating previously reported news from various sources. If outside sources are used, it is noted within the story.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DULUTH \u2014 Sun Country Airlines is set to restore its nonstop service from Duluth International Airport to Southwest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,10256,126820,126821],"class_list":["post-302268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-southwest-florida-international-airport","tag-sun-country-airlines","tag-tom-werner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}