Delta Air Traces is celebrating Cinco de Mayo by unveiling a brand-new path to Mexico Metropolis.
The service will begin each day service from its hub at Boston Logan Worldwide Airport (BOS) to Mexico Metropolis Worldwide Airport (MEX) on Dec. 21, 2023, in line with a service spokesperson.
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The brand new 2,276-mile route will likely be operated by a Boeing 757-200. Whereas some Delta 757s characteristic lie-flat business-class seats, those flying from Boston to Mexico Metropolis will merely sport home recliners within the pointy finish of the aircraft.
Delta Flight 250 will depart Boston at 7:50 a.m. and land in Mexico Metropolis at 12:55 p.m. Return Flight 251 will go away Mexico Metropolis at 2 p.m. and land again in Boston at 7:51 p.m.
Delta will load the brand new flight into its schedule this weekend, and you’ll begin reserving seats by Sunday, Could 7. Simply word that Delta’s new service is topic to authorities authorization.
The brand new Mexico Metropolis route is simply the newest in a collection of massive boosts for the airline’s Boston hub.
Final yr, Delta expanded its long-haul portfolio in Boston by including new service to Athens and Tel Aviv. Boston will quickly be related to 6 of the airline’s joint-venture hubs, together with Amsterdam (KLM); London (Virgin Atlantic); Paris (Air France); Sao Paulo (LATAM); Seoul, South Korea (Korean Air); and now Mexico Metropolis (Aeromexico).
The Mexico Metropolis route will function in partnership with Delta’s joint-venture accomplice, Aeromexico. The 2 Skyteam-member airways fashioned a U.S.-Mexico transborder alliance in Could 2017, and buyer advantages embody extra flights and a streamlined journey expertise. With this new route, Delta will quickly function 10 flights per day between six of its U.S. hubs and Mexico Metropolis. Delta additionally has a 20% possession stake in Aeromexico.
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All of this progress comes as Delta is gearing as much as debut an enormous footprint enlargement in Boston. It’s going to embody an expanded worldwide terminal and a surprising new Sky Membership that is anticipated to open in August or September.
Delta goes head-to-head with JetBlue Airways in Boston. JetBlue additionally considers the town one in all its most vital hubs (or focus cities, as JetBlue calls them).
The 2 airways have fought neck-in-neck over latest years for dominance available in the market. Nonetheless, Delta’s newest worldwide enlargement ought to definitely woo flyers trying to discover locations outdoors of JetBlue’s primarily leisure-focused worldwide gateways.
Curiously, JetBlue flew between Boston and Mexico Metropolis from October 2018 to January 2020, Cirium schedules present. The airline withdrew from the market to concentrate on extra worthwhile routes, together with “a portfolio of leisure and VFR markets [or ‘visiting friends and relatives,’ a subset of leisure travelers] that… proceed to supply robust margins,” JetBlue president Joanna Geraghty mentioned on the time.
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