Delta Launching Boston To Sao Paulo Flights, Replacing LATAM

As part of their growth between the two airlines, here is my short list of routes that both airlines should add in the near future. ATL - Medellin (Delta) ATL - Brasilia (Delta) Lima - Boston (LATAM) Any routes that I missed, add them to list.

Boston (and environs) hosts the largest brazillian community in the US and the largest concentration of brazilans outside of Brazil. Jan-March are the Summer months in Brazil, with awesome weather, carnaval, beaches and everybody having a good time. I think this route will work for Delta.

‘Delta is by far in the best position among US airlines - and among many global airlines’ How can Tim even try to put Delta in the same league as global airlines? Just focusing on U.S. airlines Delta flies to 89 international destinations, American flies to 92 international destinations and United flies to over 120 international destinations. As Ben recently pointed out in an article about United, he says that United is truly the leader among the U.S. airlines when it comes to being a global airline as it flies to more international destinations than any other U.S. airlines. At least, United tries new routes and makes it worthwhile for the customers while Delta only looks after its bottom line. ‘ Delta is the only US airline that is buying widebody aircraft from Airbus. Everybody else is dependent on Boeing and their problems.’ Yes, which shows Delta’s hypocrisy when it joined other U.S. airlines to talk smack about the ME3 when back then Delta only bought foreign made aircraft and back in 2017 it had the audacity to talk about protecting American jobs when it bought a lot of airplanes from Airbus. Yes, now it is a different story as Boeing is going through its own troubles but I just wanted to point out Delta’s hypocrisy and no matter what Delta did or does there will always be Tim with his own Delta poms poms cheering them to the end.

Let's break this down for once. "If the flight works for LA with the current timings, it works for DL. They have a JV. There are connections at BOS and certainly on the GRU end." Great reaction, to the point and on topic. You could have stopped here. "As for aircraft availability, all US airlines use more widebodies in the summer than in the winter." Ok, nice addition, nice to mention, but a bit like kicking in an open door, to be honest. It's not exactly new information. "In addition, DL will receive 14 new Airbus widebodies this year - more than twice the number of 787s that AA, UA and HA will receive from Boeing." Here we go again. A completely off-topic rant and somehow UA and AA need to be involved. Even worse, they need to be shat on and made look bad - even about things beyond their control and which have literally nothing to do with the topic. It's as if Timmy only gains self worth and self confidence by kicking others down instead of climbing up by himself. Very sad. "Most of DL's new widebodies are coming or came after the summer so were of no use during the most peak summer period." Irrelevant. "DL is beginning conversion of the ex-Latam 359s to the new DL standard 35H configuration." Irrelevant. "They are also retiring several 767s between now and the spring but they still have more widebodies during the winter that they need for their international schedule and still have some for 2025 growth - in addition to the 11 confirmed Airbus widebodies they will receive in 2025 although some could also be received in the 2nd half of the year and not usable for the peak summer period." Since this is about a swap of metal for about 10 weeks, since this involves an A330 and since this topic has absolutely nothing to do with anything that might happen later on in 2025, nor on completely different routes, I'd call it off topic. "Competitively, I believe with this addition, DL will overtake UA as the 2nd largest US airline at GRU even on its own metal." Irrelevant and speculation. Being the carrier with the second most 'US metal' at some airport doesn't say anything, really. It's about a temporary 10 week aircraft swap, it's not a long term strategic investment that's being discussed. Besides, given that the 3 US legacy carriers fly to and from different hubs, have different strategies and appeal to different audiences, making literally every route or aircraft a competition is truly apples and oranges, or rather complete bollocks. "DL appears to have a good plan to use its extra widebodies during the winter in markets other than to Europe is also operating double daily ATL-EZE and ATL-SCL for a couple months during the winter as well in addition to their increased service to the S. Pacific." Again, off topic and irrelevant here. This is about a short term aircraft swap on a route to Brazil. "There are other routes to S. America which DL could take over from LA even on a seasonal basis if this works." They could also ask Air Belgium for some nice wet lease agreements if they're shorthanded, for example. Again, off topic and speculation, there's no incentive to assume this may be considered. I side with Julie and many others here: please seek help.

Let’s not forget latam is down an aircraft because of the incident in Milan.