DELTA AIRLINES ANNOUNCES FLIGHT SERVICE TO NAIROBI – an information bulletin from 2AFRIKA’s Founder & President, Kenneth R. Hieber

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 05TH, 2008
NEW YORK, NY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The sales and marketing team of Delta Airlines in Kenya has announced that June 3, 2009 is the commencement date for their ‘four times a week’ flights from Atlanta via Dakar / Senegal to Nairobi. This will be the first direct flight operated by a US carrier to East Africa, since Pan Am World Airways in the ‘old days’ first operated scheduled flights, also via West Africa, before then switching their waypoint to Frankfurt/Germany.

According to a Delta spokesperson, the airline will initially operate a Boeing 767-300 on the route with 36 seats in business class and 181 seats in economy class, plus some significant cargo uplift boosting imports and exports by air.

By mid-2009 Delta said it is planning to connect to some 12 cities in 10 African countries, making it the premier North American airline for flights between the US and Africa.

Delta is a member of SkyTeam, the same alliance Kenya Airways and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines belong to, opening options of code shared flights, before Kenya Airways can upon delivery of some of their newly ordered aircraft commence additional flights from Nairobi to the US.

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