LACROSSE, Wis. — The La Crosse airport’s governing board is seeking $250,000 in county funds to lure Delta Airlines into resuming flights to Minneapolis. Jeffrey Trip, airport director, said the funds would guarantee a minimum number of boardings during a one-year or two-year start-up period. Delta dropped LSE a station in 2023 because of a pilot shortage. At one time, before CoVid, Delta was the dominant LaCrosse carrier with hourly flights to its MSP hub some times of day and for a while a daily flight to Detroit. With only American Airlines now offering LSE service — and only three flights a day, all to Chicago, LSE boardings are off 60%, Trip saod. People instead are driving to Minneapolis to catch planes, he said. .
