Delta bumps up summer seats to Europe

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Delta has unveiled plans for a seasonal summer expansion of its routes to Europe.

This additional capacity should make it somewhat easier to find award seats across the pond…right? At least we can hope so. How’s your luck been so far?

Among the additions:

• To Italy, Delta will resume daily Detroit-Rome service on May 2 with a 767-400, and will add a second Atlanta-Rome flight May 23, operating up to six times a week with a 767-300. (Delta also flies to Rome from New York JFK.)  June 2 is the relaunch date for daily summer flights from Atlanta to Venice, using a 767-300; and starting June 16, Delta will lay on six 757-200 flights a week between New York JFK and Pisa, Italy. The carrier will supplement its current JFK-Milan service starting June 17 with a daily 767-300 flight from Atlanta to Milan.

• Daily service from Delta’s Salt Lake City hub to Amsterdam is slated to begin May 2, with a 210-seat 767-300, operated with joint venture partner KLM.

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• Effective May 2, Delta will resume daily New York JFK-Shannon, Ireland service using a 757-200.

• May 2 is also the starting date for daily service from JFK to Reykjavik, Iceland, with a 234-seat 757-300; now in its fifth year, the Iceland service will continue through September.  (A new option for Iceland trips is that country’s ultra-low-cost carrier Wow Air, with Boston-Reykjavik fares starting at $99.)

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