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SALT LAKE CITY — Utahns have easy access to dozens of American cities via nonstop flights out of Salt Lake City International Airport.
Green Bay, Wisconsin, is currently not one of them. However, that will change for a week in late April because Green Bay — a city of a little over 100,000 nearly 120 miles north of Milwaukee — will host the 2025 NFL draft.
Delta Air Lines announced Friday it will add several new nonstop flights out of six airports between April 23 and April 27, 2025, so football fans can attend the event in the smallest American market among "big four" sports.
Salt Lake City is one of the cities Delta selected, receiving a special flight between Salt Lake City International Airport and Green Bay's Austin Straubel International Airport on April 23, 2025, the day before the NFL extravaganza begins. There will also be a return flight on April 27, 2025, the day after it ends.
Milwaukee would be the next closest option for Utahns to reach the event at legendary Lambeau Field, per Salt Lake City International Airport's nonstop destinations directory.
Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and New York City will also have new or enhanced services to Austin Straubel International Airport on the week of the draft. There will also be new flights between Atlanta and Appleton International Airport — located about 30 miles southwest of Green Bay — that week.
Tickets for these flights will go on sale beginning Saturday.
The NFL has rotated host cities for the annual NFL draft after holding it in Chicago in 2015 and 2016. It was held in New York City every year for decades before that. Next year will mark the first time college stars learn their pro destination while in Green Bay.
Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy said last year — after the NFL announced the 2025 draft would come to Green Bay — that he expected the event would create a fun atmosphere with fans across the country coming to Wisconsin.
"It's going to be exciting," he said at the time. "We know they'll bring that energy and it will make it a really special event."
