Sun Country Airlines opens up flights through April 2022
The airline said opening up flights more than a year in advance will give travelers more leeway using their vouchers to postpone flights.
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Sun Country Airlines will allow travelers to book flights more than a year in advance to accommodate postponed spring break plans.
The Twin Cities-based airline will open up flights through April 2022, it announced Thursday. The adjustment will allow travelers who have to postpone trips due to COVID-19 to use their vouchers before they expire, according to the airline.
Travelers should charge or postpone their flight plans at least 60 days in advance to avoid fees.
Boldly mixing new music and spoken word, Outpost variety show bursts out of hibernation REVIEW: A bold mix of new music and spoken word.
By Rob Hubbard Special to the Star Tribune February 2, 2021 1:42pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Maybe what classical music needs is something like an old-fashioned Irish seisiun, where the formality of the form drops away and musicians throw themselves enthusiastically into the give-and-take of collaboration, bridging tunes with an engaging story or joke.
Outpost is the closest thing I ve seen to a contemporary classical seisiun. The brainchild of soprano Carrie Henneman Shaw and Minnesota Orchestra violist Sam Bergman, Outpost is an occasional new-music and s
Sun Country adds 9 more flights out of MSP Airport
The new additions include large cities and popular outdoor destinations.
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Sun Country Airlines is adding nine nonstop routes from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP).
The Twin Cities-based airline announced the additional nonstop routes on Monday, which are among the 16 new nonstop flights across its network.
“We are excited to extend our network and offer people access to even more low-cost vacation options, when they are ready to travel again,” said Sun Country Airlines CEO Jude Bricker. “The past year has been a challenge for the travel industry but with increased access to COVID-19 tests and vaccinations, we’re starting to see that turnaround.”
“I didn’t know it was a co-op, but once I found out what it was, I was like, ‘ This is amazing. People running a company democratically. Taxi drivers, from all different walks of life, able to run this company. It was so inspiring to me, that’s really when I began to learn all about worker cooperatives, getting involved in local government and national and international organizations as well,” says Kemble.
A handful of drivers founded Union Cab Cooperative in 1979, after they attempted to unionize under their previous employer, who responded by folding the company. They scraped together the cash from friends and family to buy a handful of cabs, radio equipment, and all the necessary permits and insurance about $150,000 in startup costs at the time. Today the co-op has 157 members, 109 of which are primarily drivers, and it has managed to maintain its footing through more than one upheaval in Madison’s car transportation sector.
Minnesota s Lyra Baroque brings 17th-century music into the Zoom era The chamber ensemble Lyra Baroque embraces technology as an opportunity for interaction.
By ROB HUBBARD Special to the Star Tribune January 21, 2021 11:18am Text size Copy shortlink: Turn on original sound. That s a button you might notice when teleconferencing on Zoom. It s used by musicians, allowing their instruments to flow forth freely without the Zoom speech filters that often get confused by music.
But it s also an appropriate description for Lyra Baroque, the Twin Cities-based chamber orchestra that performs in the HiP style.
What is HiP ? It stands for historically informed performance, meaning the musicians use instruments similar to those played in the Baroque era of the 17th and 18th centuries. Gut strings, wooden flutes, harpsichords Lyra aspires toward the original sound.