Delta Plans New Long-Haul Route

Delta is rising its long-haul community with a brand new route set to start in January 2025. The Atlanta-based provider continues to develop its worldwide portfolio in 2025, asserting seven new European routes just last month.

In keeping with the newest Cirium Diio schedule replace, the airline plans to attach Boston with São Paulo’s Guarulhos Worldwide Airport starting Jan. 6, 2025. Flights are slated to function thrice per week on an Airbus A330-300 plane.

The airline’s associate LATAM operates the identical route, which Delta could also be changing, in response to airline insider JonNYC on Twitter/X.

A Delta spokesperson confirmed the route addition: “From January 6 to March 27, 2025, Delta will function flights between Boston and São Paulo-Guarulhos, a route at present served by LATAM. Clients holding tickets for this route throughout that interval might be robotically rebooked onto Delta-operated flights with no modifications to their authentic departure dates.”

Outbound flights function on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays, scheduled to depart Boston at 9:00 a.m. native time earlier than touchdown within the Brazilian metropolis at 8:45 p.m.

Return flights are scheduled in a single day, leaving São Paulo at 10:45 p.m., and arriving in Boston at 6:40 a.m. the subsequent day. At present, the route is just scheduled between January and March and isn’t but obtainable for reserving.

The airline additionally serves São Paulo from its Atlanta and New York-JFK hubs.

Boston-São Paulo joins a number of recently-announced 2025 routes by the airline, together with Salt Lake City-Seoul together with Minneapolis-Copenhagen.

Editor’s Be aware: This story was up to date on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024 at 10:58 a.m. ET so as to add an announcement from Delta. 

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