Delta Air Lines starting Miami flights to Medellin with Latin American partner airline

Miami Herald Staff Report
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Delta Air Lines and its partner LATAM Airlines Group are adding daily flight service from Miami to Medellin, Colombia in October, as part of five new routes by the airline partnership between the United States and South America.

Delta said Friday LATAM Airlines Colombia will start flying a daily nonstop flight on 180-passenger jets from Miami International Airport to Medellin and from Medellin to Miami on Oct. 29. Delta, one of the four biggest U.S. airlines, is one of the major carriers at Miami airport, the largest in South Florida.

On that day, Delta-LATAM will begin daily flights between its Atlanta home base and Peruvian capital Lima, and start a second daily flight from Atlanta to Colombia capital city Bogota.

Also, the airline partners are starting daily flights July 1 between Orlando International Airport and Bogota.

Then on Dec. 22, Delta will start flight service on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday between Atlanta and Cartagena on the Caribbean coast of Colombia.

The partners other two new routes are flights between Los Angeles and Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, starting Aug. 1, and service between John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, beginning Dec. 16.

“The mission of Delta and the LATAM group’s partnership is to make travel between our joint venture markets in North and South America easier and more enjoyable and to bring the continents closer than ever,” Alex Antilla, Delta’s vice president for Latin America, said in a prepared statement.

Delta and LATAM Group became partners in October 2022 and have since increased seat capacity by 75% on flights between North and South America. The partnership gives passengers connections to more than 200 destinations in North America and more than 120 in South America.

Separately, Delta said in mid-April it resumed twice daily nonstop flights between Miami airport and Havana three years after suspending the flights amid the coronavirus pandemic.