USA: Delta Air Lines To Connect Heathrow To Salt Lake City, JFK To Edinburgh

The US airline Delta Air Lines, which signed a joint venture agreement with Virgin Atlantic on transatlantic flights, will open two new lines in May 2016: Salt Lake City to London Heathrow and New York JFK to Edinburgh.

Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic will use their valuable lots on Heathrow airport to launch there a new route to Salt Lake City, Utah in the US capital. Flights operated by Delta Air Line's depart daily from 1 May 2016, with departure at 20:10 Salt Lake City for an arrival at London Heathrow at 13:10 the next day. The return is scheduled at 14:15 for a landing in Utah 6:07 p.m.. Both cities were never connected until then Europe with a single connection again operated by Delta Air Lines for 7 years, to Paris Charles de Gaulle. In 2009, Delta had also launched a connection to Tokyo-Narita, but that was later abandoned due to low demand from the travelers and by fear of the H1N1 virus that hit Japan hard.

Delta will launch the same May 26, 2016 daily flights between New York JFK and Edinburgh, a new route that follows the logic of expansion of Virgin Atlantic from Scotland with the launch last year of a Glasgow-Orlando. Takeoff from New York is scheduled at 20:15 for a scheduled arrival at 8:40 the next day. The return flight restarts Edinburgh 10:30 for a landing at JFK at 1:01 p.m.. Delta Air Lines will however compete with American Airlines from Heathrow (code-sharing with British Airways) as well as with United since Newark (codeshare with Lufthansa).