{"id":22782,"date":"2022-07-18T20:21:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=22782"},"modified":"2022-07-18T20:21:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:21:56","slug":"sun-country-to-provide-new-eas-service-to-eau-claire-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/wisconsin\/sun-country-to-provide-new-eas-service-to-eau-claire-wisconsin\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Sun Country to Provide New EAS Service to Eau Claire Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sun Country Airlines announced that it has been selected by\nthe U.S. Department of Transportation to provide Essential Air Service (EAS)\nfor Chippewa Valley Regional Airport (EAU) in Eau Claire, WI, beginning in\nDecember 2022. Sun Country will provide Eau Claire with a total of four weekly\nround trips per week including two round trips to Minneapolis-St. Paul\nInternational Airport and approximately two round trips per week to Orlando,\nLas Vegas or Fort Myers adjusted seasonally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sun-Country-Livery-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22784\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sun-Country-Livery-edit.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sun-Country-Livery-edit-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sun Country is well known to Wisconsin travelers. It already\nprovides service to Green Bay, Milwaukee and Madison. The Chippewa Valley\nRegional Airport approached Sun Country about providing the service last spring\nwhen SkyWest Airlines\/United Express filed a notice that it intended to\nterminate EAS service at Chippewa Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to the DOT request for comments from the\ncommunity regarding air carrier proposals, the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport\nDirector said: \u201cThe Chippewa Valley Regional Airport Commission would like to\nexpress their unanimous support for the Sun Country Airlines proposal to\nprovide airline service to EAU. Sun Country Airlines provides an exciting\nopportunity to work with an Ultra-Low-Cost Carrier with a brand that is already\nknown in our region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSun Country\u2019s business model surges in times of peak\ndemand, including the winter months, and utilizes cargo and charter flying at\ntimes of the year with less demand for scheduled service flying,\u201d said Grant\nWhitney, chief revenue officer. \u201cThis is a great fit for Sun Country to provide\nadditional service in Wisconsin, and we are excited to bring new service to the\nChippewa Valley region,\u201d said Grant Whitney, Sun Country Airlines Chief Revenue\nOfficer. \u201cWe appreciate the enthusiasm of and partnership with the Chippewa\nValley Regional Airport to connect the Chippewa Valley with Minneapolis-St.\nPaul International Airport and the 78 destinations we serve as well as to\nprovide service to Las Vegas, Orlando and Fort Myers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. DOT waived the minimum frequency requirement for the\nEAS service which requires a minimum of two daily flights, six days a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun Country Airlines announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Transportation to provide Essential Air Service (EAS) for Chippewa Valley Regional Airport (EAU) in Eau Claire, WI, beginning in December 2022. Sun Country will provide Eau Claire with a total of four weekly round trips per week including two round trips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,141,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airlines","category-eas","category-wisconsin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sun-Country-Livery-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22785,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22782\/revisions\/22785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}