Delta Expanding in Africa
From a Delta news release. Service to be 757.
October 22, 2008
Building on our advantage as the only U.S. network carrier to serve Africa, we announced Wednesday that we’re expanding our service and introducing the first and only flight between Atlanta and Liberia’s capital of Monrovia. The service, which will make an intermediate stop on Sal Island, Cape Verde, will start in June.
Customers will benefit from significant time savings over other routes through Europe to Liberia, and they also will be able to connect to more than 150 destinations throughout the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean through Atlanta.
“We are pleased to add Monrovia to our industry-leading Africa network,” said Glen Hauenstein, e.v.p.-Network and Revenue Management. “Passenger traffic to and from Africa continues to grow at some of the highest rates in the world. We are very encouraged with the response to our flights to Africa and look forward to serving Liberia and contributing to its trade and tourism development efforts.”
We fly between the U.S. and six other African destinations with service between New York-JFK and Accra, Ghana; Dakar, Senegal; Cairo, Egypt; and Cape Town in South Africa (via Dakar) and between Atlanta and Lagos, Nigeria, and Johannesburg, South Africa (via Dakar).
Liberia is in western Africa, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the country’s southwest. The country has strong historical and cultural ties to the U.S. With key exports of minerals and timber, there is a strong and growing market for business traffic between Liberia and the U.S.