Delta Air Lines to cancel its 4th daily flight at Minot Airport

Delta Air Lines will cut a flight temporarily to and from Minot, North Dakota, the United States, in September 2009.

According to a press release from Minot International Airport, Delta Air Lines, based in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States, will reduce the number of daily arrivals and departures out of Minot from 4 flights daily to 3 flights a day.

The cancelled flight is that which arrives at Minot International Airport at 2.47 p.m. and leaves for Minneapolis, in Minnesota, at 1:15 p.m.

Delta Air Lines said it will restore the 4th flight at Minot on October 1, 2009.
The local media reported Pam Davy, executive director for Norsk Hostfest, the largest Scandinavian cultural festival in North America, as saying that the cancellation of one flight to and from Minot is worrying the organisers of the festival that starts on September 29, 2009.

A number of people, Pam Davy adds, fly to Minot a few days before and after the Norsk Hostfest. The Norsk Hostfest is held in Minot in the autumn each year.

The cutting of one daily flight by Delta Air Lines at Minot International Airport will result in a reduction of 77 seats each day in September 2009 compared to August 2009, and about 70 fewer seats in 2009 than during the Norsk Hostfest in 2008, according to the executive director of the festival.
Delta Air Lines had changed to smaller aircraft on its Minot-Minneapolis route after it merged with the United States-based Northwest Airlines. However, the addition of a 4th daily flight in June 2009 had added many more seats on the route.