Delta Air Lines resumes Atlanta-Brussels flights after five-year pause

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Delta Air Lines resumes Atlanta-Brussels flights after five-year pause

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By Sky Industry News

Dec 24, 2024

Delta Air Lines is set to resume its service between Atlanta and Brussels this summer after a five-year break. The airline plans to operate a Boeing 767 three times a week starting in June. This route was last active in March 2020 but was halted due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.

According to Cirium, an aviation analytics firm, Delta will use its Boeing 767-300ER fleet for the flights, beginning June 10, 2025. The schedule includes Flight DL140 departing Atlanta at 18:00 and arriving in Brussels at 08:40 on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Flight DL141 will leave Brussels at 10:45 and arrive in Atlanta at 14:25 on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.

Delta currently offers a seasonal daily flight from New York JFK International Airport to Brussels. However, this route will be temporarily suspended from January 6 to March 8, 2025.

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Cirium data indicates that Delta previously operated daily services between Atlanta and Brussels during the summer of 2019 before the pandemic led to their suspension in early 2020. While the JFK connection resumed in 2022, the Atlanta-Brussels route has remained inactive until now.

Brussels is recognized as a major business hub and tourist destination in Europe. The airport served nearly 27 million passengers annually before the pandemic and expects over one million passengers during the upcoming holiday season.

Next summer, Delta aims to run almost 100 daily flights across Europe, offering over 750,000 monthly seats each way. Destinations include cities like Amsterdam, Stockholm, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Dublin, Edinburgh, Rome among others.

As reported by AeroRoutes.com:

"Atlanta – Amsterdam" sees changes effective June with an A330neo replacing an A330-300; further adjustments occur in August with an A330-300 substituting for an A350-900.

"Atlanta – Dublin" undergoes equipment shifts between March and April involving B767-400ERs and A330-300s.

Similar adjustments affect routes such as "Atlanta – Milan Malpensa," "Atlanta – Munich," "Atlanta – Nice," and "Atlanta – Paris CDG."

In addition to these intercontinental updates out of Atlanta (ATL), Delta will introduce new weekly flights within the US and Latin America during summer weekends on Saturdays only. These include routes from ATL to Bangor (BGR) and Rapid City (RAP), as well as connections from Detroit (DTW) to Punta Cana (PUJ), Bozeman (BZN), Pensacola (PNS), Destin-Fort Walton Beach (VPS), along with Minneapolis-St Paul (MSP) serving Jackson Hole (JAC).