Minneapolis to Brainerd nonstop
Yes: SkyWest flies direct from Minneapolis (MSP) to Brainerd (BRD) about 12 times a week, year-round.
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Minneapolis to Brainerd in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 114 miles nonstop, about 45 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year, a steady 12 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 12 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 12 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 11 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 11 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 12 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 12 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 12 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 12 flights a week
- May 2026: 13 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 12 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 12 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 12 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- SkyWest is the only carrier filing this pair.
- Fares
- Half of the 60 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $50 and $125 one way, median $75. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $75 one way, middle half $50 to $150, 91 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $75 one way, middle half $50 to $150, 57 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $75 one way, middle half $50 to $150, 50 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $75 one way, middle half $50 to $125, 60 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $75 one way in every quarter of the DOT ticket survey (Q3 2024 to Q2 2025). Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Brainerd to Minneapolis nonstop.
Also nonstop from Minneapolis (MSP)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 19 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 17 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 10 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 9 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 9 times a day
- Washington (DCA) about 7 times a day
- Charlotte (CLT) about 7 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 7 times a day
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