While the pandemic may be far from over, certain aspects of life upended by COVID-19 are slowly beginning to go back to normal. This is especially true of the travel industry, where lifted restrictions are now allowing people to finally take the trips that have been on hold for two years. The latest news comes from Delta Air Lines, which just announced that it would be making some changes to its flights in the coming months as travelers take to the skies once again. Read on to see what the carrier will be doing differently soon.
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In a press release on March 15, Delta announced that it would continue to beef up its transatlantic flight schedule in the coming months. The latest additions to the airline’s routes include new flights from Salt Lake City to London’s Heathrow Airport beginning May 14. In addition, a new service from New York City John F. Kennedy Airport to Stockholm will also start on June 1.
“Delta has been focused on building back our network to give customers easy, convenient access to wherever they want to go, and we’re delivering on that promise with up to 74 daily flights to 21 European destinations from 10 U.S. gateways this summer,” Joe Esposito, senior vice president of network planning for Delta, said in the press release.
The latest changes to the carrier’s schedule come just over a month after it announced it would be adding more flights to popular European destinations in anticipation of increased tourism demand in the wake of lifted travel restrictions. The airline is now the largest trans-Atlantic carrier from Boston and New York, offering 27 daily flights to 20 European cities from JFK airport alone as pre-COVID routes to Brussels, Zurich, Prague, Edinburgh, and Copenhagen are restored. It’s also boosting flights from Boston with nine daily flights to nine European locales,…