Delta Air Lines is celebrating a decade of flying to Africa. Over the past 10 years, the airline has welcomed 4.2 million customers on board its services to the United States \u2013 almost three times the population of Accra.<\/p>\n
Delta\u2019s first flight landed in Accra on December 12, a week after the inaugural services to Dakar, Senegal, and Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/p>\n
An additional service to Lagos, Nigeria, was added one year later. Since then, Delta has become the leading airline between the United States and Africa as well as the only one to link North America with Ghana and Senegal nonstop.<\/p>\n
\u201cDelta has invested billions of dollars to enhance the service we offer our customers in Africa and across the globe since our inaugural flights here,\u201d said Jimmy Eichelgruen, Delta\u2019s Sales Director for Africa, India and the Middle East.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have added fully flat-bed seats, on-demand entertainment and Wi-Fi to every flight across the Atlantic. Travellers will also now find regional cuisine and dedicated airport facilities but one thing that hasn\u2019t changed is our commitment to offering the same levels of customer service that have made us the favourite U.S. airline serving this continent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some of Delta\u2019s other notable achievements in Africa over the past 10 years include:<\/p>\n
Today, Delta flies nonstop to four points in Africa; Accra, Ghana, Dakar, Senegal, Johannesburg, South Africa and Lagos, Nigeria.<\/p>\n
It also has reservations\/ticketing and sales offices in a number of additional markets, including Kenya and Uganda.<\/p>\n
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Source: Delta Air Lines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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