Delta Air Lines adds Shanghai flights amid thaw in China-US economic relations
Carrier says LA-Shanghai service is being expanded ‘in response to customer demand’
Delta Air Lines, one of the United States’ top carriers, will add two weekly flights connecting Shanghai with Los Angeles due to customer demand at a time of thawing relations between the world’s two biggest economies.
The Atlanta-based airline’s weekly direct flights on the cross-Pacific route will rise to five from three in October, Delta said in a statement issued this week.
Delta, which aviation intelligence firm OAG ranks as America’s second-largest carrier by number of seats, said that from October it will operate 19 China-US flights a week – including Shanghai to Detroit and Shanghai to Seattle.
A Delta spokesperson said on Wednesday that the Los Angeles-Shanghai service was being expanded “in response to customer demand”.