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Esposito of Delta said Boston provides “a high level of business traffic (that is) well diversified with education, high tech, pharmaceuticals and other corporations. Boston is a strong market, he added with leisure travelers as well as business travel involved in universities and corporations including pharmaceutical companies.
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“We do best to Delta strongholds,” he said during an interview at the IATA conference in Boston. KLM CEO Pieter Elbers told The Points Guy that 15% to 20% of KLM’s Boston passengers connect via Delta. KLM operates three weekly departures to Amsterdam, where it offers connections throughout Europe.
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He said that Delta will eventually serve eight of the top 10 transatlantic destinations from Boston – “That’s a pretty good portfolio to go to market with” - and that 25% of the international passengers will make domestic connections.Īiding Delta in Boston is joint-venture partners Air France-KLM, which strengthens its transatlantic position at Logan. anchor carrier for transatlantic, so I think there’s a great opportunity for us.” “We always did very well domestically in Boston, but internationally it’s mostly foreign flags flying into Boston,” Joe Esposito, Delta senior vice president for network planning, told The Points Guy. Now Delta sees a path to becoming the number one carrier at Logan as it continues to grow, particularly in international flights. What Delta is doing in Boston is the same thing it did in Seattle, where – starting in 2014 - it built a domestic hub largely on the strength of international service that was superior to what incumbent carrier Alaska could provide. Many Delta domestic flights are on regional aircraft operated by Delta Connection affiliates. “We will offer more seats (as) a result of all mainline aircraft,” he said. August schedules show JetBlue with 631,027 seats and Delta with 615,2307 seats. JetBlue spokesman Philip Stewart said the carrier will maintain its seat advantage into the summer. JetBlue, the current leader, said it plans 154 summer departures, while American has not released its summer schedule. The November schedule shows JetBlue with 130 peak daily departures, compared with 121 for Delta and 106 for American, the airlines say.īy summer 2022, Delta will operate up to 160 daily departures from Logan to 55 destinations, representing 20% more capacity than it operated at its highest pre-pandemic level in October 2019, Delta said. However, JetBlue will have more departures on peak days, the airlines said. Looking ahead to November, Delta also projects more total departures, with 3,204, compared to 3,184 for JetBlue and 2,288 for American, according to Cirium. JetBlue also maintains an advantage in available seat miles, with 570 million in September, compared with 435 million for Delta and 299 million for American, Cirium said.īut that status quo is being challenged as Boston emerges as an increasingly competitive aviation market. Delta’s Delta Connection affiliates will fly those routes with regional jets, so the seat count won’t be high - but the challenge to American is obvious.įor now, JetBlue maintains a seat advantage, with 419,152 seats in October, compared with 382,299 for Delta and 276,669 for American, according to Cirium. Moreover, on Sunday, Delta will add two new destinations – Charlotte and Dallas/Fort Worth, the two largest hubs of rival American.
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Want more airline-specific news? Sign up for TPG’s free new biweekly Aviation newsletter! Next up are plans to add Paris early in 2022 and then Athens and Tel Aviv in the summer as well as the resumption of seasonal routes to Dublin, Edinburgh and Lisbon. Delta now serves Amsterdam, Rome and - starting later this month -London Heathrow. For now, JetBlue remains ahead in the number of seats, but that advantage could erode too as Delta adds transatlantic flights on high-capacity wide-body jets. That’s a switch from September, when JetBlue had 2,888 scheduled departures, Delta had 2,797 and American 1,774, according to Cirium.īased on current schedules, October will be the month that Delta’s departure count passes JetBlue, long the airport leader. What Delta didn’t say is that in October, it will become the largest airline at Logan in terms of departures - with 3,140 for the month, compared to 3,074 for JetBlue and 2,016 for American, according to Cirium. airlines.ĭelta helped put the spotlight on the city this week, kicking off a global airline industry conference there earlier this week by announcing plans to expand its Boston Logan hub with two new transatlantic flights, three new domestic routes and new Airbus A321 neo aircraft. It’s all eyes on Boston this week for three of the biggest U.S.
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