Delta Adds Five Daily Flights to Denver from Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta Air Lines DAL will launch five daily flights from Los Angeles International Airport to Denver International Airport beginning June 1, 2016, closing a key gap for its corporate customers in Los Angeles.

Delta's Denver service will provide one-stop connecting service to several key international destinations through LAX, including Sydney and Brisbane through Delta's partnership with Virgin Australia as well as Tokyo-Haneda. The service will also complement Delta's recent growth in Los Angeles, which includes the launch of nonstop service to Shanghai. In 2016, Delta will begin operating Boeing 717 aircraft on all Delta Shuttle flights between Los Angeles and San Francisco, increase to 10 daily flights to both New York-JFK and Seattle and add a third daily flight to Boston. Delta's seat growth in Los Angeles has grown more than 99 percent since 2009, the most of any carrier.

"We are relentless in our pursuit of becoming the airline of choice for Angelenos, and Denver is a key addition to our growing portfolio on the West Coast," said Ranjan Goswami, Delta's Vice President – Sales-West. "With five daily flights and our recent investments in T5, Delta has a very competitive offering for customers traveling between L.A. and Denver."

Delta's Los Angeles to Denver flights will be operated on the following schedule by Delta Connection carrier SkyWest Airlines using two-class, 76-seat CRJ-900 aircraft:

Delta operates 160 peak-day departures to 60 destinations from Los Angeles and recently completed a $229-million facilities enhancement of Terminal 5 at LAX that features a newly remodeled Delta Sky Club, a renovated Sky Priority lobby, and a brand new premium check-in experience, Delta ONE at LAX. For more information on Delta ONE at LAX, visit www.delta.com/deltaoneatlax.

Delta Air Lines serves more than 170 million customers each year. Delta was named to FORTUNE magazine's top 50 World's Most Admired Companies in addition to being named the most admired airline for the fourth time in five years. Additionally, Delta has ranked No.1 in the Business Travel News Annual Airline survey for four consecutive years, a first for any airline. With an industry-leading global network, Delta and the Delta Connection carriers offer service to 316 destinations in 57 countries on six continents. Headquartered in Atlanta, Delta employs nearly 80,000 employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 800 aircraft. The airline is a founding member of the SkyTeam global alliance and participates in the industry's leading trans-Atlantic joint venture with Air France-KLM and Alitalia as well as a joint venture with Virgin Atlantic. Including its worldwide alliance partners, Delta offers customers more than 15,000 daily flights, with key hubs and markets including Amsterdam, Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York-JFK, New York-LaGuardia, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Salt Lake City, Seattle and Tokyo-Narita. Delta has invested billions of dollars in airport facilities, global products and services, and technology to enhance the customer experience in the air and on the ground. Additional information is available on the Delta News Hub, as well as delta.com, Twitter @DeltaNewsHub, Google.com/+Delta, Facebook.com/delta and Delta's blog takingoff.delta.com.

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