Delta´s Inaugural Flight to Antigua Scheduled for December 2005

Delta Airlines will make its inaugural flight to Antigua later this year. The December 18 inaugural event will cement a six-month negotiating process with the team headed by Tourism Minister Harold Lovell.

Delta is the second largest operating carrier within the United States, and the airline will be making 2 scheduled flights per week on Wednesdays and Saturdays non-stop to Antigua from Atlanta, with its 737 aircraft that has a seating capacity of 148 passengers.

Currently the airline operates into the eastern Caribbean islands of Barbados and St. Lucia.

Tourism Minister Lovell said that this new airlift opportunity will offer connection reach to Antigua out of approximately 20 significant US gateways, with major ones being Miami, Orlando, New York and New Jersey.

Earlier this week, a team of Delta Airlines representatives headed by Senior Vice President of Operations in the Caribbean, Mr. Terry Strand, and inclusive of Sales and Marketing, Finance, Ground Handling Services and IT personnel, visited Antigua.