Delta will become the only major US airline to offer non-stop service between Africa and the USA. Starting in December, it will fly between Atlanta Hartsfield and Johannesburg, South Africa, with a stop in Dakar, Senegal. It may also pull down some of its northeast to Florida flying this summer as it adjusts for the season and as it folds Song into its system.
ATA Airlines emerged from its bankruptcy reorganisation with a plan focusing on leisure destinations such as Los Angeles and Las Vegas and Cancun, Mexico. It also assumes it will increase its military charter business.
El Salvador’s TACA Group has ambitious plans, moving to ink a system-wide codeshare with United Airlines and scheduling new nonstops between both New York and Boston and its Central American hubs to increase connecting flows to Peru and all of its Latin American destinations. United now serves only Guatemala City and San Salvador in Central America non-stop, and only from Los Angeles.
Source: Airline Business