Delta Strengthens SAS Partnership, Adds Shanghai Service

Speaking at the World Aviation Festival in Amsterdam on Oct. 9, SAS CEO Anko van der Werff said that the airline company is additionally eager to sign up with the transatlantic endeavor in place in between Air France-KLM, Delta and Virgin Atlantic. Air France-KLM took a 19.9% stake in SAS previously this year.

“My message is that we have actually been kept back by not remaining in a (transatlantic) joint venture, so we most definitely have the ambition,” van der Werff stated. “Air France-KLM have actually likewise been public regarding the reality that they desire us to be component of their joint endeavor.”

“Many Minnesotans are of Scandinavian heritage, and this new route provides fantastic accessibility to support much deeper social connections and the extension of cross-Atlantic company connections between our regions,” states Brian Ryks, chief executive officer and executive supervisor of the Metropolitan Airports Commission, which runs and owns MSP.

Paul International Airport (MSP) and Copenhagen Airport (CPH) will certainly start on May 22, 2025, operating three times per week using Airplane A330-300 airplane. (3,707-nm) course will certainly come to be Delta’s 2nd to Denmark’s capital city together with its summer season solution from New York John F. Kennedy International Flight Terminal (JFK). The carrier additionally serves Stockholm Arlanda Airport terminal from JFK.

Delta’s choice to introduce the CPH route follows SAS last month joined SkyTeam following its departure from Star Partnership. The two airlines have actually likewise signed a codeshare contract, which will certainly offer Delta guests accessibility to 50 destinations in north Europe through SAS’ hubs in Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm. Consequently, SAS customers will have the ability to attach to more than 150 locations in North America through Delta’s hubs.

The 4,266-mi. (3,707-nm) path will certainly come to be Delta’s second to Denmark’s capital city along with its summer period solution from New york city John F. Kennedy International Airport Terminal (JFK). The provider likewise serves Stockholm Arlanda Flight terminal from JFK.

SAS has already begun to move its U.S. strategy to much better line up with its brand-new companion, launching a route between Copenhagen and Delta’s Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Flight terminal hub last June and announcing plans to go back to Seattle from following May after a 15-year lack.

Additionally, the service provider has verified that trips between Los Angeles International Flight Terminal and Shanghai Pudong International Flight terminal will certainly resume in June 2025, operating three times each week utilizing A350-900 airplane. The continuously path has actually been suspended given that the onset of the pandemic in 2020.

Solution connecting Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Terminal (MSP) and Copenhagen Airport Terminal (CPH) will certainly start on May 22, 2025, operating three times per week making use of Airplane A330-300 airplane. Trips will certainly get on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays on the eastbound leg.