LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta Air
Lines (NYSE: DAL) will launch five daily flights from Los Angeles International Airport to
Denver International Airport
beginning June 1, 2016, closing a key
gap for its corporate customers in Los
Angeles.
Delta's Denver service will provide one-stop
connecting service to several key international destinations
through LAX, including Sydney and
Brisbane through Delta's partnership with Virgin Australia as
well as Tokyo-Haneda. The service will also complement Delta's recent growth in Los Angeles, which includes the launch of
nonstop service to Shanghai. In
2016, Delta will begin operating
Boeing 717 aircraft on all Delta Shuttle flights between
Los Angeles and San Francisco, increase to 10 daily flights to
both New York-JFK and Seattle and
add a third daily flight to Boston. Delta's seat growth in Los Angeles has grown more than 99 percent
since 2009, the most of any carrier.
"We are relentless in our pursuit of becoming the airline of
choice for Angelenos, and Denver
is a key addition to our growing portfolio on the West Coast," said
Ranjan Goswami, Delta's Vice President – Sales-West. "With
five daily flights and our recent investments in T5, Delta has a very competitive offering for
customers traveling between L.A. and Denver."
Delta's Los Angeles to Denver flights will be operated on the
following schedule by Delta Connection carrier SkyWest Airlines
using two-class, 76-seat CRJ-900 aircraft:
Origin
|
Destination
|
Depart
|
Arrive
|
LAX
|
DEN
|
6:30 a.m.
|
9:55 a.m.
|
9:10 a.m.
|
12:35 p.m.
|
12:45 p.m.
|
4:10 p.m.
|
3:30 p.m.
|
6:50 p.m.
|
6:55 p.m.
|
10:20 p.m.
|
DEN
|
LAX
|
7 a.m.
|
8:30 a.m.
|
10:30 a.m.
|
12:05 p.m.
|
1:15 p.m.
|
2:45 p.m.
|
4:45 p.m.
|
6:15 p.m.
|
8:35 p.m.
|
10:10 p.m.
|
Delta operates 160 peak-day
departures to 60 destinations from Los
Angeles and recently completed a $229-million facilities enhancement of
Terminal 5 at LAX that features a newly remodeled Delta Sky Club, a
renovated Sky Priority lobby, and a brand new premium check-in
experience, Delta ONE at LAX. For more information on
Delta ONE at LAX, visit www.delta.com/deltaoneatlax.
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 316 destinations in 57 countries on six continents.
Headquartered in Atlanta,
Delta employs nearly 80,000
employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 800
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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