You could win a trip to see the solar eclipse from an airplane

Contest winners will get two tickets on Southwest flights that cross the path of totality and stay in eclipse-themed Omni Resort rooms.

If you by now booked a trip to see the total solar eclipse that’ll sweep throughout North The united states on April 8, you may well want think about a improve of options. Southwest Airlines is offering absent tickets to two flights that should cross the eclipse’s route of totality at the suitable time for you to practical experience the eclipse from 38,000 feet in the air.

Just believe: At cruising altitude, there are no clouds to get in the way of your eclipse viewing, so climate won’t be a variable. All you will need is a window seat and a pair of eclipse eyeglasses.

Winning the contest will land you and a close friend on just one of two flights, both of those on April 8: Dallas (Love Area) to Pittsburgh or Austin, Texas, to Indianapolis. If you really do not presently live in a person of the metropolitan areas exactly where the flights originate, Southwest will also go over your airfare to get there from where ever you reside (in the U.S.).

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Oh, and Southwest and Omni Accommodations and Resorts paired up for the “Solarbration” sweepstakes, mainly because the moment you have experienced your eclipse experience, you’ll have to have a position to remain for the evening. So your lodging will be coated, way too — in an eclipse-themed place at an Omni Hotel. Winners will get a absolutely free keep in their departure town as well as at their destination.

When you enter the sweepstakes, you will have to decide on which flight you’d desire:

• Southwest Flight 1252: Departs Dallas (Adore Industry) at 12:40 p.m. Central, arriving in Pittsburgh at 4:20 p.m. Jap. Absolutely free stay at Omni Dallas Resort and Omni William Penn. Or:
• Southwest Flight 1721: Departs Austin at 12:55 p.m. Central, arriving in Indianapolis at 4:15 p.m. Eastern. Free continue to be at Omni Austin Resort Downtown and Omni Severin Hotel.

You have to be 21 or more mature to enter, and the contest is open to authorized people of the U.S. (Alaska and Rhode Island are excluded).

The deadline to enter is 8 a.m. Central on March 11. But with daylight saving time arriving on Sunday to throw off our snooze schedules, we think it is most effective to enter now!