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A ticket to the Super Bowl is out of reach for most people, but a flight to the host city is now more feasible.
This morning, American Airlines announced new direct flights from select cities to San Jose, California, during Super Bowl week. Miami is one of six cities getting door-to-door access to the host city. Charlotte, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York (JFK), and Philadelphia will also get direct flights to the area that week.
In a statement, American said it will increase flights to San Jose Mineta International Airport by more than 450 percent to get fans to Levi’s Stadium for the big game. The airline says it will add more than 10,000 seats to and from the host city between February 5 and 10.
Direct flights are already on sale. American will operate two flights from Miami on Thursday, February 5, and Friday, February 5, and one return flight on Monday, February 9.
Flight AA 2971, a six-hour-and-43-minute route, leaves Miami International Airport at 3:30 p.m. Thursday and lands in California at 7:13 p.m. Tickets cost $300 for Main Cabin seats and $1,440 for Premium. The Friday flight follows the same itinerary but is more expensive. Tickets cost $590 for Main Cain seating and $1,808 for Premium.
Return flights from San Jose to Miami are costlier still. The five-hour-and-23-minute flight AA 1022 leaves San Jose at 1:13 p.m. and arrives in Miami at 9:36 p.m. Tickets cost $1,020 for Main Cabin seating and $2,810 for Premium.
American adds that as the football season progresses, it will “evaluate opportunities to add additional fan flights for the teams playing in the final showdown.”
Though we’re a long way from knowing who will compete in the Super Bowl this year, anticipation is already building after this weekend’s announcement that Bad Bunny will play the halftime show in February. The news was met with both elation and backlash: Some critics posit that he’s not as seasoned as other past performers, while others are pissed the halftime show will likely be performed entirely in Spanish this year. If the show is anything like the historic concerts he put on in Puerto Rico this summer, it will be a spectacle worthy of the world’s biggest stage.
And lest we forget, he’s been on that stage already — Shakira brought him on as a guest performer during her joint halftime show with Jennifer Lopez in 2020.
