Delta Air Lines to mark five years flying between Ghana and the United States
By Peterking Quaye, Accra, Ghana- One the world leading carrier Delta Airline will next month Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) mark its fifth anniversary of service between Ghana and the United States.
It will be record that Delta launched its service between the United States and Africa in December 2006, introducing routes to Senegal, South Africa and Ghana, with the start of service from Accra to New York-JFK. Since the start of service Delta has carried nearly 450,000 passengers between Ghana and the United States. The airline’s service includes the SkyMiles frequent flier program, a world-class airline loyalty program; the award-winning BusinessElite service; and more than 50 Delta Sky Clubs in airports worldwide. Delta is investing more than $2 billion through 2013 in airport facilities and global products, services and technology to enhance the customer experience in the air and on the ground. Customers can check in for flights, print boarding passes, check bags and review flight status at.
Delta’s has also grown its presence in Ghana with the launch of service from Accra to Atlanta in June 2010 and intra-Africa service between Accra and Monrovia, Liberia in February 2011.This was contained in a release in Accra dated 1 November 2011 and sent their corperate communications unit of Delta Airlines.
Delta Air Lines serves more than 160 million customers each year, and was named by Fortune magazine as the most admired airline worldwide in its 2011 World’s Most Admired Companies airline industry list. With an industry-leading global network, Delta and the Delta Connection carriers offer service to 338 destinations in 59 countries on six continents. Headquartered in Atlanta, Delta employs 80,000 employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 700 aircraft.
“As the leading U.S. airline to Ghana, we’re delighted to soon be marking the fifth anniversary of service boosting travel and tourism between our two nations and increasing travel choice for Ghanaians,” said Bobby Bryan, Delta’s commercial manager for West and East Africa. “As the only airline to operate nonstop service from Accra to two cities in the U.S – Atlanta and New York, as well as service to Liberia we continue to be committed to service to Ghana for many years to come.”
A founding member of the SkyTeam global alliance, Delta participates in the industry’s leading trans-Atlantic joint venture with Air France-KLM and Alitalia. Including its worldwide alliance partners, Delta offers customers more than 13,000 daily flights, with hubs in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Salt Lake City and Tokyo-Narita.
Delta now operates service to six African cities in five countries, having grown from 22 weekly departures to and from Africa in December 2006 to more than 44 planned for winter 2011. Through the hubs in Atlanta and New York-JFK, Delta offers an unsurpassed network of hundreds of convenient onward connections to destinations throughout the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and Canada.
