Two regional airlines are in talks to fly central Wisconsin travelers to Detroit, and CWA’s director is pushing for a launch sooner than next June.
Records in the packet for Monday’s Central Wisconsin Joint Airport Board meeting name the carriers for the first time. Airport Director Brian Grefe told the board in October that Central Wisconsin Airport has opened discussions with Endeavor Air, Delta’s wholly owned regional subsidiary, which runs the maintenance base at CWA and flies the airport’s Minneapolis route, and with SkyWest Airlines, which told the airport it wants the Detroit route and wrote a letter supporting the federal grant application.
SkyWest representatives planned to visit CWA within two weeks of the October meeting to look at the property, Grefe said. Delta must approve any service, and no decision has been made…