Atlanta Airport - Airline Service & Routes Updates Thread (mover, credit card)

[PKCorey]

Frontier's new Atlanta routes that will launch April 30 are: Cincinnati, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York LaGuardia, New Orleans and Minneapolis/St. Paul. The carrier will fly one daily round-trip flight to each

Frontier announces major expansion for Atlanta

[Chevalier de Saint-George]

I hope that Jet Blue can return to Hartsfield-Jackson. More options are always good, lol.

[cwkimbro]

Originally Posted by SAAN

Great news that more flights options are here and horrible news that its SPIRIT AIRLINES as the ones adding them.

Agreed!

It hurt my head when the news first broke.

I'm blaming Southwest for this.

We lose Airtran and get Frontier and Spirit to help fill gaps on only high frequency routes.... yuck.

[Atlwarrior]

Delta increasing Rome, Italy flights this summer.

DELTA Expands Atlanta – Rome Service from June 2015
Posted: 24 Feb 2015 10:00 PM PST
Update at 0600GMT 25FEB15

DELTA in Summer 2015 season further expands planned operation on Atlanta – Rome route. Previously scheduled to increase from 7 to 11 weekly from 22MAY15 to 31JUL15 remains unchanged, however this will further increase to 13 weekly starting 07JUN15.
DL258 ATL1544 – 0730+1FCO 76W x4
DL240 ATL1816 – 0950+1FCO 333 D
DL259 FCO0915 – 1435ATL 76W x5
DL241 FCO1215 – 1727ATL 333 D

[cwkimbro]

Originally Posted by Atlwarrior

Delta increasing Rome, Italy flights this summer.

DELTA Expands Atlanta – Rome Service from June 2015
Posted: 24 Feb 2015 10:00 PM PST
Update at 0600GMT 25FEB15

DELTA in Summer 2015 season further expands planned operation on Atlanta – Rome route. Previously scheduled to increase from 7 to 11 weekly from 22MAY15 to 31JUL15 remains unchanged, however this will further increase to 13 weekly starting 07JUN15.
DL258 ATL1544 – 0730+1FCO 76W x4
DL240 ATL1816 – 0950+1FCO 333 D
DL259 FCO0915 – 1435ATL 76W x5
DL241 FCO1215 – 1727ATL 333 D

I wonder if this is just for an increase in tourism to Italy or if they are going to strengthen the skyteam partnership with Alitalia. Even though they are in the same alliance, they were never as close as Delta, KLM, and Air France it seems.

[Atlwarrior]

Originally Posted by cwkimbro

I wonder if this is just for an increase in tourism to Italy or if they are going to strengthen the skyteam partnership with Alitalia. Even though they are in the same alliance, they were never as close as Delta, KLM, and Air France it seems.

I doubt that only because on 1 August 2014, the Abu Dhabi-based UAE national airline Etihad Airways confirmed it had agreed to terms with Alitalia on taking a 49% stake in the Italian airline. This deal was signed on 8 August 2014 and became effective on 1 January 2015. I don't think the Sky-team partnership is that strong considering Delta disdain for any ME3 carrier. I actually believe this may be a safeguard against any KLM-AF future strikes. The Sky-team alliance seems to be a hot mess lately.

[SAAN]

Originally Posted by cwkimbro

Agreed!

It hurt my head when the news first broke.

I'm blaming Southwest for this.

We lose Airtran and get Frontier and Spirit to help fill gaps on only high frequency routes.... yuck.

I didnt realize Frontier became a bad airline to fly now until I read reviews. Atleast they have a 31inch seat pitch vs Spirit's 28inches.

[Atlwarrior]

Okay I book a Atlanta to New York Laguardia airport on Frontier. It was super cheap, and surely I can endure a short NYC flight. I was reading the reviews from previous customers about Frontier and they were mostly horrible. I'm hoping for the best. I'm also baffle that Atlanta will four carriers operating a hub like system from Hartsfield Delta, Southwest, Frontier, and Spirit. Also the LAX route from Atlanta will have 5 airlines providing non-stop service to that city.

[Atlwarrior]

Meanwhile at Hartsfield

Inaugural Virgin Atlantic flight to Atlanta from Manchester cancelled after 'water cannon salute' is swapped for foam and clogs engines

On a serious note, one would rather expect the airport fire crews to be better trained than to mistake a button that says water from one that says foam. It might not be so funny had they attended a real emergency and messed up like this.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/tr...lane-FOAM.html

[Atlwarrior]

New service to Colombia from Atlanta. Yay!
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Delta Airlines is adding service from its Atlanta hub to Medellin and Cartagena in Colombia from 19th December 2015

Schedule as follows:

1730 ATL - MDE 2210 D 737-700
0740 MDE - ATL 1254 D 737-700

Delta is the 4th US carrier with service to MDE, but the first one to do so from a point outside of Florida.
In recent days, AM has also started service to MDE, and Iberia will start service to the city from July.


0945 ATL - CTG 1350 Wed, Sat, Sun 737-800
1450 CTG - ATL 1910 Wed, Sat, Sun 737-700