Delta Air Lines will fly to New Zealand for the first time, launching daily Auckland– Los Angeles flights from 28 October 2023 on an Airbus A350-900 aircraft. Delta also announced a new Atlanta–Nice route and added more Paris and Tel Aviv services.
With this new NZ route, Delta Air Lines will become the only US carrier to offer nonstop flights between LA and Auckland.
The new Down Under route will complement the airline’s service from Sydney to LAX, where it currently operates 10 flights per week. Other new LAX services announced include Tahiti, Paris and London.
Los Angeles World Airports CEO Justin Erbacci said: “Delta’s addition of nonstop service from Los Angeles to New Zealand is in lockstep with the airline’s commitment to expand and improve service to our region.”
“Coupled with Delta’s international additions to Sydney and Tahiti, this is another exciting result of the ongoing and strong collaboration between LAX and Delta Air Lines as we connect more people across the Pacific and beyond.”
Delta also plans to boost its European destinations with new and added trans-Atlantic services from its New York-JFK and Atlanta hubs.
The US carrier is forging its way to full network restoration, announcing its first Northern Hemisphere summer 2023 trans-Atlantic routes to Edinburgh, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Geneva and Stuttgart, which it has not flown since pre-pandemic.
Delta’s Senior VP – Network Planning Joe Esposito said: “With more than 1,750 weekly flights to 85 destinations around the globe this [Northern Hemisphere] summer, Delta is well positioned to deliver on its plans to fully restore its network in 2023.”
Delta currently operates more than 150 daily flights from LAX to 53 destinations worldwide.
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