Delta Air Lines is adding capacity for July but will remain 65 percent below last year's capacity levels on domestic routes and about 75 percent below last year's international capacity, the carrier announced.
Additional domestic capacity in July will center largely on the carrier's hubs in Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis and Salt Lake City and will include more transcontinental flying, according to Delta. The growth also will focus on leisure markets in Florida and the West Coast. Delta's service to Canada will remain on "a limited schedule for those with critical travel needs" to major gateways including Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Winnipeg.
Routes to Latin America and the Caribbean, which this month are operating at only 10 percent of their usual capacity, will increase to 25 percent of usual capacity. That will include largely leisure destinations, but Delta also will restart service between Atlanta and São Paulo.
Transatlantic service in July will include resuming flights between New York and both Lisbon and Athens and between Detroit and Paris. Delta also will add service between Amsterdam and both Boston and Seattle, and the carrier will resume service between New York and Accra, Ghana, and between Atlanta and Lagos. All of those services are pending the lifting of travel restrictions.
Delta's transpacific service will remain "significantly reduced" in July. New service will include flights between Los Angeles and Sydney and between Atlanta and Seoul. The carrier also plans to operate service to Shanghai via Seoul, pending government approval.