Delta Air Lines Expands Again in Boston
Two years ago, Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) was expanding rapidly in Boston. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 forced it to pause that growth. However, Delta is now looking to resume its Boston growth plan, boosting capacity to record levels by next summer. That represents mixed news for market leader JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU) and its new partner, American Airlines (NASDAQ: AAL).
Delta has been growing rapidly in Boston for several years. In June 2019, Delta named Boston as its newest hub. By that point, the global airline had already doubled its daily domestic departures from Boston compared to 2013.
A few months later, Delta took over the five gates it did not previously control at Logan Airport's Terminal A. That gave it a total of 21 gates in Boston. It used those extra gates to launch nonstop flights from Boston to four key markets -- Chicago, Miami, Newark, and Washington, D.C.'s Reagan National Airport -- in late 2019. Around that time, Delta announced that it would add several new international flights from Boston in 2020.
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