Delta to add 7 new routes to Africa
Northwest jets will be repainted with Delta colors starting in December
By KELLY YAMANOUCHI
The Atlanta Journal-Constitutio n
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Delta Air Lines plans to launch seven new routes from Atlanta to Africa next
summer as part of a broader international route network.
Atlanta-based Delta also plans to add a second daily flight from Atlanta to
Tokyo's Narita Airport effective May 4. For that flight, it plans to use the
Boeing 747-400 from merger partner Northwest Airlines. It is Delta's first
announced 747 flight out of Atlanta since the merger closed last month.
Delta will repaint its first Northwest 747 to Delta colors in December at a
facility in Victorville, Calif., and expects to repaint the entire Northwest
fleet in the Delta livery within about two years.
Delta is also adding new routes from New York and Salt Lake City to its Tokyo
hub from Northwest, and from Tokyo to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Some of the
service will be operated under Northwest's operating certificate.
"Delta continues to hone a distinct and strategic global network that
capitalizes on new opportunities created by our recent merger with Northwest,"
along with its New York and Atlanta hubs, said Delta executive vice president
of network planning and revenue management Glen Hauenstein in a written
statement.
The new Africa routes planned from Atlanta include flights to Johannesburg,
South Africa; Abuja, Nigeria via Cape Verde; Luanda, Angola via Cape Verde;
Maloba, Equatorial Guinea via Cape Verde; and Cape Town, South Africa via
Dakar. Delta also will resume plans to fly to Nairobi, Kenya via Dakar, but
will fly the route from Atlanta instead of New York, and it will begin flying
from Atlanta to Monrovia, Liberia via Cape Verde as previously announced. All
of the new Africa routes are expected to start in June.
The new routes, which are subject to government approval, are part of a broader
international network that Delta has planned as a key benefit of its merger
with Northwest. At the same time, Delta is slowing its international growth as
economic problems spread around the world.
Delta will cut one of its three daily flights from Atlanta to London, and is
changing a number of its international routes by cutting back to seasonal
service or reducing the number of flights per week.
It also plans to stop flying a Detroit-Osaka, Japan route and is suspending its
Detroit-Paris route in January for the winter season.
Delta also is cutting its total capacity in Cincinnati by about 12 percent,
measured by available seat miles, as it restructures the hub. While Delta
pledged not to eliminate hubs as a result of its merger with Northwest, many
observers believe the airline may need to revisit that decision.
In Atlanta, Delta has said it does not plan to significantly grow its
operations in its schedule for early next year.
Other new routes Delta plans to start next summer are New York to Gothenberg,
Sweden; Prague, Czech Republic; Valencia, Spain and Zurich, Switzerland. Most
of those routes are also subject to government approval.
As the airline ramps up the integration of the two carriers' operations, it
carrier is adding more flight capacity between Delta's hubs in Atlanta,
Cincinnati New York and Salt Lake City and Northwest's hubs in Minneapolis,
Memphis and Detroit. Delta said it will have a full code-share partnership with
Northwest for flights between Delta hubs effective Jan. 5, and will fully
combine its flight schedules by next summer.
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