As someone who lived in Tampa growing up, I love to keep tabs on the airport, and how nicely it has grown over the years. Along those lines, as of late October 2024, Delta resumed transatlantic flights out of Tampa, though only for the winter season. There’s now an exciting update, as the airline has made the decision to operate this route year-round, as flagged by @IshrionA.
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Delta brings back Tampa to Amsterdam route
As of October 26, 2024, Delta resumed nonstop flights between Tampa (TPA) and Amsterdam (AMS). While the route was initially just supposed to operate for the winter season, through March 29, 2025, the decision has now been made to resume the flight on a year-round basis.
The flight operates with the following schedule, daily in the winter season, and 4x weekly in the summer season:
Tampa to Amsterdam departing 7:55PM arriving 10:45AM (+1 day)
Amsterdam to Tampa departing 12:35PM arriving 4:55PM
The 4,613-mile flight is operated by an Airbus A330-300, featuring 282 seats, including 34 business class seats and 21 premium economy seats.
For background on this route, Delta first launched flights between Tampa and Amsterdam in 2019, and at the time the service was supposed to be on a year-round basis. Then the route was suspended at the start of the pandemic, and hadn’t been restarted for years… until recently.
It’s awesome to see this route extended to year-round, rather than just for the winter season. Presumably in winter, Delta sees strong demand for the route on the European side, for people looking to visit Florida. Meanwhile in summer, presumably demand will be stronger among Americans looking to visit Europe.
Amsterdam is a hub for KLM, which is a SkyTeam member, and also part of the same transatlantic joint venture as Delta, so this will open up all kinds of one-stop service to and from Tampa. KLM serves over 100 destinations out of Amsterdam, so whether you’re looking to travel to Europe, Africa, India, or beyond, there are a lot of opportunities here.
How this fits into Tampa’s international service
Tampa’s international service has grown impressively over the years. As a kid, I remember always getting really excited when I saw the British Airways 777 that flew to London Gatwick at the airport. It was Tampa’s only transatlantic flight at the time, and there was just something so exciting about thinking I could actually fly nonstop across the ocean from my home airport.
Nowadays Tampa has four transatlantic routes, in addition to this newly launched one. This includes British Airways’ route to London (LGW), Discover Airlines’ route to Frankfurt (FRA), Edelweiss Air’s route to Zurich (ZRH), and Virgin Atlantic’s route to London (LHR). Tampa also has a lot of short haul international flights, on both US airlines and foreign carriers.
Bottom line
Delta has brought back flights between Tampa and Amsterdam as of late October 2024. While the route was initially supposed to be seasonal in winter, it has now been expanded to year-round, which is a great development.
Delta is using an A330 for the flight, and it represents Tampa’s fifth transatlantic service. I hope this route is able to prove successful in the long run. I’m just kind of bummed that it’s Delta operating this route, and not KLM.
What do you make of Delta bringing back Tampa to Amsterdam flights?
Only if Tampa had a Priority Pass lounge/restaurant. Used to have a restaurant but it left PP.
We have a booking on this flight in early February 2025 and we have purchased Delta Premium Select seats. These seats are apparently only available on the A330 900neo, so the type of aircraft appears to be changing into 2025.
Premium Select exists on all A330s
I am thrilled ! just learned this. My husband and family are from Holland and we travel TPA-AMS serveral times a year. Year 'round is going to be wonderful !
I'm sure there are a lot of subsidies involved. But that aside, this may be a great use of a global upgrade certificate.
I wonder if this is opening up the way for TPA-CDG in the future.
The French don't go to Tampa. French people are more drawn to Miami or Orlando because of Disney.
The only downside of the DL A330 is the very old configuration of biz class
The config is perfectly acceptable, reverse herringbone is good enough.
The issue is poor maintenance. The seats are quite literally falling apart. The footrest cushions are peeling off and some seats are held together with duck tape.
In fact, I've noticed very poor upkeep even on their newer A330neos. The bathroom and suite doors are all getting stuck and it's super wonky. It's very alarming to have these kind of problems for such new aircraft.
Maybe DL keeps the 767s around so that when people end up on a 332 or 333 instead of a 339 they can say "at least it's not the 767".
Love this. Too many international trips on 767's of various airlines. Ugh.
This is true of all Delta's fleet. I just got off an A320 from DFW to DTW. My seat didn't recline and the tray table had been removed. Instead of blocking the seat for passengers and moving me (on a paid first-class ticket), Delta just gave me the seat and refused to do anything besides moving me to a later DFW to DTW flight. They had one passenger who was upgraded from economy to first....
This is true of all Delta's fleet. I just got off an A320 from DFW to DTW. My seat didn't recline and the tray table had been removed. Instead of blocking the seat for passengers and moving me (on a paid first-class ticket), Delta just gave me the seat and refused to do anything besides moving me to a later DFW to DTW flight. They had one passenger who was upgraded from economy to first. They should have denied his upgrade, put me in his seat and not assigned anyone to the broken seat. Sadly, these kind of issues are happening all the times.
you consistently say this but I never see what you see.
I swear you have the luck for finding the defective and broken
Martinair used to fly this route in the 1990s and maybe in the 2000s? Before it became a cargo airline wholly owned by KLM.
This is what you can do with solid fleet and network plans and robust JVs.
Since KL just announced SAN something added by Delta was certain to keep the JV in balance
The question is if this is part of new terminal facilities for DL at TPA
KL’s 3-times weekly flight to AMS will secure Skyteams dominance in San Diego. LOLZ.
DL launches new route: "This is what you can do with solid fleet and network plans and robust JVs."
UA launches new route: "disastrous attempt at massive expansion"
Delta will carry more passengers further on this one route on a year round basis than United will with all their narrow body seasonal less than daily routes. That is the point. Like American’s 2025 routes This is just a boring route between two existing large cities for Delta that will generate far more impact.
@Watson, Please don’t use normal logic or previous statements to attack my son. He’s very fragile when he’s proven wrong. It just goes over his head.
Did you do your chores Timothy?
stick to your knitting, you old witch
@Ben: As it appears, it will be four times weekly in summer (daily in winter). Also WK to ZRH is not daily, not even in winter.
But I guess for a more leisure type of destination, this makes sense.
I know a hot girl from Tampa, so I have only good things to say about the city. I would like to fly with her from Tampa to Amsterdam.