The travelers to Sun Valley can now look forward to added capacity with newer aircrafts and seats. Delta Air Lines has indicated it will introduce bigger jets for providing flight services on Sun Valley-Salt Lake City route. The airline said that it add capacity on the route and also provide more amenities. According to Delta Air Lines, the flights between Salt Lake City and Sun Valley would be operated by SkyWest Airlines on its behalf.

Delta Air Lines said that the flights on Salt Lake City-Sun Valley route with added capacity will begin operations starting from January 6, 2014. The airline said that 65-seat Bombardier CRJ-700 jets would be deployed on the route. The new aircraft will feature nine first class seats. There will be eight Economy Comfort seats as well with more legroom. The airline was until now operating the service with the help of 50-seater aircrafts. The airline will conduct three roundtrip flights to Sun Valley four to five times every week during peak winter season until the end of March. During the summer season, the airline will operate three daily roundtrip flights. However, during the spring and fall two roundtrip flights would be conducted.

Anthony Black, a spokesman for Delta Air Lines, said that the airline decided to upgrade the service on this route after constantly monitoring the passenger demand and increased traffic to Friedman Memorial Airport in Hailey. He said that considering the growing passenger demand, the airline decided to upgrade the service with added capacity and amenities. This will prove to be beneficial to those traveling in the first class on connecting flights to Salt Lake City to continue their travel in the first class itself for their entire itinerary.