Delta Air Lines

Pent-up demand coupled with high vaccination rates will spur companies to send employees back on the road.

Delta Air Lines wants to begin a codeshare with airBaltic on two dozen routes from the Latvian carrier’s hubs in Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius.

Daily passenger throughput at US airports has been approaching the 2 million mark on peak travel days

Routes rounds up the latest new route announcements, as well as services returning to carrier’s networks.

The move is part of the Atlanta-based carrier’s effort to buttress its Boston hub.

The airline believes it will be back at 100% of pre-COVID-19 domestic leisure travel levels by next month.

Routes looks at the current state of the growing US-Mexico transborder market in the wake of the FAA’s decision to downgrade Mexico’s safety rating to Category 2.

This is the latest sign that an anticipated leisure demand surge has fully materialized in time for summer 2021.

The Atlanta-based airline will serve four new markets and increase the use of its Airbus A220 fleet.

Governments on both sides of the pond must heed the calls for the swift and safe return of transatlantic flights between the two countries.

Routes rounds-up the latest new route announcements, as well as services returning to carrier’s networks.

The tie-up is still being reviewed in other countries, including Chile.

Air travel 'between low-risk countries' should resume, executives tell White House.

Civil unrest in Israel has prompted a number of carriers to halt flying to the country.

The airline will become the only African carrier to offer a nonstop link between Senegal and the US.

The Atlanta-based carrier will serve the country nonstop for the first time ever.

Routes details a selection of new air services scheduled to start this month.

Delta Air Lines has agreed to purchase 25 additional Airbus A321neos, with options for 25 more, as carriers resume planning for long-term growth and the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic ebbs across the U.S.

There are nuances among some airlines in the U.S. regarding the best short and longer-term solutions to combat climate change, particularly with respect to carbon offsets.

The planned transpacific route is returning to the US carrier’s network after a 22-year absence.

At the end of March, corporate travel remained at just 20% of pre-pandemic levels.

Although corporate travel remains severely depressed, Delta Air Lines is seeing encouraging signs that some business demand could materialize later in 2021.

Delta Air Lines is to offer flights from three U.S. destinations to Iceland this summer after the country became the first in Europe to allow entry for fully vaccinated Americans.

Iceland’s decision to open its borders to vaccinated travelers is prompting the carrier to launch a new route to the country in May, as well as resuming two other services.

With an agreement under its belt to supply more than 60 million gal. of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) a year to Delta Air Lines, Northwest Advanced Bio-Fuels (NWABF) has secured an equity commitment to build a plant to produce jet fuel from waste wood.