Delta Air Lines, Air France launch joint venture with three new flights connecting London Heathrow to Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York-JFK.
Airlines have teamed up to win in the newly deregulated marketplace, offering customers more options for travel across the Atlantic.
Delta Air Lines and Air France yesterday officially kicked off their joint venture agreement, fully leveraging the new E.U.-U.S. Open Skies agreement starting with three new trans-Atlantic routes connecting London-Heathrow to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK).
Beginning on 1 April, the joint venture partners will operate daily nonstop flights connecting London-Heathrow to Los Angeles and Atlanta, and twice-daily flights to New York-JFK. Air France will operate the LAX flight while Delta operates the JFK and Atlanta flights.
The launch of the new Heathrow-Los Angeles route makes Air France the first European carrier to offer its long-haul customers the benefits of Open Skies.
According to the terms of their expanded joint venture agreement, signed Oct. 17, 2007, the two airlines will share revenues and costs on flights operated by both carriers between London-Heathrow and the United States, as well as on flights between Air France's Paris-CDG and Lyon hubs, and Delta's Atlanta, New York-JFK, Cincinnati and Salt Lake City hubs.
By 2010, the agreement will be extended to all trans-Atlantic flights operated by Air France and Delta between Europe and the Mediterranean on one side and North America on the other side, as well as all flights between Los Angeles and Tahiti.
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