ATLANTA, Aug. 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta Air Lines
(NYSE: DAL) and Virgin Atlantic Airways will offer customers two
new routes across the pond with the introduction of Delta's nonstop service from Salt Lake City to London Heathrow and New
York-JFK to Edinburgh, Scotland,
beginning in May 2016.
The routes add to the value that the Delta-Virgin Atlantic joint
venture provides customers through an aligned route network
offering more frequencies, competitive fares and harmonized
service. The Department of Transportation's 2013 grant of
anti-trust immunity to the Delta-Virgin
joint venture makes this new service possible.
"For the second summer in a row, Delta will be launching new routes that give
customers more options when flying between the United States and the U.K.," said
Nat Pieper, Delta's Senior Vice President – Europe, Middle
East and Africa.
"Delta and Virgin Atlantic are
committed to offering an extensive network on the trans-Atlantic,
and our new flights from London
and Edinburgh will offer more
connections to destinations throughout the U.S. and beyond."
Delta's seasonal Salt Lake City to London Heathrow flights will
operate as follows:
Flight
|
Departs
|
Arrives
|
DL50 /
VS4020
|
Salt Lake City at
8:10 p.m.
|
Heathrow at 1:10 p.m.
(+1 day)
|
DL51 /
VS4019
|
Heathrow at 2:15
p.m.
|
Salt Lake City at
6:07 p.m.
|
Delta's New York-JFK to
Edinburgh flights will operate as
follows:
Flight
|
Departs
|
Arrives
|
DL488 /
VS4026
|
New York-JFK at 8:15
p.m.
|
Edinburgh at 8:40
a.m. (+1 day)
|
DL489 /
VS4027
|
Edinburgh at 10:30
a.m.
|
New York-JFK at 1:01
p.m.
|
Starting May 1, 2016, Salt Lake City will be Delta's eighth U.S. destination from
Heathrow and the only nonstop
service between London and the
Mountain West. As the largest airline operating in Salt Lake City, Delta offers connections to more than 50
destinations throughout the Western U.S. and into Canada.
Daily nonstop service between New York-JFK and Edinburgh will begin on May 26, 2016, offering customers in the U.K. up
to 60 convenient onward connections from JFK. Delta's new service from Scotland's capital city joins Virgin
Atlantic's three times weekly summer seasonal service from
Glasgow to Orlando.
Passengers travelling in the Delta One cabin on both the
Salt Lake City to Heathrow and New York-JFK to Edinburgh flights will enjoy full flat-bed
seats and a range of personalized dining options. Additionally, all
passengers will have access to on-demand in-flight entertainment
and Wi-Fi connectivity throughout the aircraft.
Launched on January 1, 2014, the
Delta and Virgin Atlantic
partnership creates an expanded trans-Atlantic route network,
enhancing competition between the UK and North America. The joint venture offers
customers connecting in the United
States seamless access to more than 200 destinations across
almost 600 routes, as well as frequent flyer reciprocity and global
lounge access.
Delta Air Lines serves more than 170 million customers each
year. Delta was named to FORTUNE
magazine's top 50 World's Most Admired Companies in addition to
being named the most admired airline for the fourth time in five
years. Additionally, Delta has
ranked No.1 in the Business Travel News Annual Airline survey for
four consecutive years, a first for any airline. With an
industry-leading global network, Delta and the Delta Connection carriers offer
service to 332 destinations in 63 countries on six continents.
Headquartered in Atlanta,
Delta employs nearly 80,000
employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 700
aircraft. The airline is a founding member of the SkyTeam global
alliance and participates in the industry's leading trans-Atlantic
joint venture with Air France-KLM and Alitalia as well as a joint
venture with Virgin Atlantic. Including its worldwide alliance
partners, Delta offers customers
more than 15,000 daily flights, with key hubs and markets including
Amsterdam, Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St.
Paul, New York-JFK, New York-LaGuardia, Paris-Charles de Gaulle,
Salt Lake City, Seattle and Tokyo-Narita. Delta has invested billions of dollars in
airport facilities, global products and services, and technology to
enhance the customer experience in the air and on the ground.
Additional information is available on the Delta News Hub, as well
as delta.com, Twitter @DeltaNewsHub, Google.com/+Delta,
Facebook.com/delta and Delta's
blog takingoff.delta.com.
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