These Are Delta Air Lines’ Busiest Routes To Europe In November

With Delta Air Lines completing a record transatlantic schedule this summer and looking to break that record in 2025, it will hope to end the year as it means to kick on. This winter, Delta will serve 16 European destinations from several US airports. According to data from aviation analytics firm Cirium, the carrier will operate almost 1,600 departures from the US to Europe this month, amounting to over 418,000 seats each way. Let’s take a look at Delta’s busiest European routes for November.

Amsterdam, London and Paris dominate

As you might expect, the airline’s busiest European routes are dominated by the continent’s three busiest superhubs – London Heathrow (LHR), Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) and Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS). Traffic on this route benefits from Delta’s extensive transatlantic joint venture with Air France-KLM and Virgin Atlantic, with these three airports making up eight of its ten busiest European routes.

These three hubs also afford excellent opportunities to connect to SkyTeam alliance partner flights, as well as lounge perks for SkyMiles status members.

1. Detroit-Amsterdam

The single busiest route this November will be Detroit Metropolitan Wayne (DTW) to Amsterdam Schiphol at 24,534 seats each way across 87 monthly flights. Delta’s Airbus A330-330 will be operating three daily services with a total of 282 seats in three cabin classes. Featuring in three of the top five busiest European routes, Amsterdam Schiphol is the main hub of close partner KLM.

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2. Atlanta-Paris

Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson (ATL) to Paris CDG will see 18 weekly flights – this route is also served by Delta’s A330-300, as well as the Airbus A350-900 and A330neo. Air France’s huge network at Paris CDG drives much of this traffic, consisting of over 200 international and domestic destinations, while SkyTeam partners China Eastern, Korean Air, Saudia, Vietnam Airlines and others serve the airport too.

3. Atlanta-London

Atlanta to London is, in fact, Delta’s second-busiest in terms of flight frequencies (86 roundtrips this month), but Delta uses its lower-capacity Boeing 767-400ERs on this route, which can seat up to 238 passengers in business, Comfort+, and economy.

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4. New York-Amsterdam

Delta will operate a double-daily between New York JFK (JFK) and Amsterdam with its A330-300 and A330neo fleet, offering 16,608 seats each way. The carrier serves several other key European cities from its JFK hub too, notably London, Paris, Rome, Milan and Barcelona.

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5. Atlanta-Amsterdam

Making up the top five is Atlanta to Amsterdam, connecting Delta and KLM customers to the primary hubs of both carriers. Delta will operate two daily flights on this route with its A330-300s.

Next summer will be Delta’s biggest European schedule

Delta will be making some significant additions to its network in Europe next summer as it gears up for its busiest transatlantic summer. The carrier will operate over 700 weekly flights to 33 destinations at its peak during the summer season in 2025, and has added more premium seat capacity.

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Newly launching routes will include Detroit to Dublin (DUB), Boston Logan (BOS) to Barcelona (BCN) and Atlanta to Naples (NAP), the latter following a successful launch from JFK last summer.

Source: Simple Flying