US airline Delta recently announced they will retire all their Boeing 777s by the end of the year. That raised questions about Delta’s longest route, Atlanta to Johannesburg as the airline’s Airbus A350s may not have the capability to fly nonstop.
Now Delta has shared the good news that they will be adding a stop in Cape Town on this route in order to refuel and so will continue to serve Johannesburg, according to The Points Guy.
Delta president Glen Hauenstein made this announcement yesterday, 20 May. The launch date of this modified route is not certain yet due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Delta plans a circle route flying Atlanta-Johannesburg-Cape Town-Atlanta with an A350 when flights resume.
No timeline given, and with a need for new longer-range A350s restart seems unlikely in 2020 https://t.co/yPMA9HHnmT pic.twitter.com/VtOyGTatgp
— Edward Russell (@e_russell) May 20, 2020
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