Salt Lake City International Airport

The final 13 gates give Delta, which has a hub at SLC and is by far the airport’s leading carrier, an even more solidified position at the airport.

Aeromexico has outlined plans for nine U.S. routes that are set to start or resume over the coming months.

Delta Air Lines has opened five additional boarding gates at its Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) hub, building on a new long-term lease agreement.

The carrier commits to $2.8 billion in SLC lease payments.

The airline will operate 95 transborder routes during next year’s summer season.

The agreements will provide in excess of 600 weekly connections for its transatlantic routes.

The ULCC will become the first new airline to enter the Salt Lake market since the first-phase completion of a $4.5 billion airport redevelopment project.

Routes selects 75 new air services set to start around the world in December 2021, looking at the planned frequency, start date and aircraft to be used.

The planned route increases Alaska Airlines’ network from Anchorage to 12 US destinations.

The US carrier will launch eight new routes as competition in Miami intensifies.

Alaska joined oneworld, which also includes Qatar Airways and American Airlines, at the end of March.

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

Anchorage, Alaska becomes the newest addition to Frontier’s network.

The carrier expects to offer around 52,000 weekly seats to and from Alaska this summer—an increase of almost 50% on two years ago.

David Neeleman’s latest venture plans to connect secondary markets that have been neglected by other US airlines.

SLC moves forward with $4.1 billion expansion despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Delta Air Lines is the airport’s primary tenant and will use 25 gates at the newly built terminal.

More routes are returning to Delta Air Lines’ long-haul network during the upcoming winter and summer seasons, but some destinations like Mumbai and Osaka are not currently scheduled to resume.

Delta Air Lines will suspend flights to 11 US markets from next month as it shrinks its route network to match demand. Separately, the carrier has also formally applied for the US Transportation Department to authorize its codeshare deal with LATAM Airlines Group.

Routes' weekly update on how airlines and airports across North America are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This week: Air India will resume services to Tel Aviv, Hainan Airlines to launch second UK destination, and Delta to link Cleveland to its Salt Lake City hub.

Delta and Virgin Atlantic are showing that their anti-trust immune joint venture across the Atlantic is yielding new routes that previously may not have been viable.

The carrier will launch service to four new markets during the first quarter of 2015 with daily direct flights from Miami International Airport to Austin-Bergstrom, Kansas City, Salt Lake City and San Antonio. These flights will commence on March 5, 2015 and will be flown by a Boeing 737-800.

Delta introduced Salt Lake City’s first regular transatlantic connection to Europe in June 2008 when it inaugurated flights to Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) and has seen traffic on the route grow over the subsequent years through a mix of point-to-point demand and transfer passengers connecting across Europe and further afield via the Air France network.

Although JetBlue sees a sizeable point-to-point demand is also expects Utah residents to connect via the Florida airport to other destinations across its network such as the Bahamas, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Mexico and Puerto Rico.