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Delta (DAL) Aims at Boston Expansion Through New Flights

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Atlanta, GA-based Delta Air Lines, Inc. (DAL - Free Report) has announced non-stop flights to Pittsburgh and New Orleans in a bid to extend its services to Boston customers.

Delta will ply twice daily nonstop flights to Pittsburgh, from Oct 1, this year. Seasonal flights to New Orleans, are expected to start operations from Feb. 10, 2018. Following this route expansion, Delta and its partners will serve a total of 47 destinations worldwide from Boston.

Non-stop seasonal flights to New Orleans Louis Armstrong Airport will operate on the weekends (Saturdays-Sundays) from Feb 10 through Apr 1, 2018 with a view to meet the customers’ high leisure demand.

Previously this year, Delta had introduced services to 10 new destinations from Boston, including Tampa, Dublin, Ireland, San Francisco and Buffalo, N.Y. 

Delta will expand the weekend West Palm Beach, Fla. and Fort Myers, Fla. flights to daily from Dec 21, 2017. It will also extend the weekend Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. flights to twice daily from Dec 21 onward. 

In a bid to meet the surge in demand during the peak holiday season, Delta intends to add more non-stop flights to popular Caribbean tourist spots like Montego Bay, Jamaica; Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; and Nassau, Bahamas; from Dec 21.

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