Delta Air Lines celebrate 10 years in Africa

  By Bernice Bessey.. Delta Air Lines is celebrating a decade of flying in Africa. Over the past 10 years, the airline has flown 4.2 million customers from Africa to the United States of America. Delta’s first flight landed in Accra on December 12, 2006, a week after the inaugural service to Dakar-Senegal and Johannesburg-South […]

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By Bernice Bessey..

Delta Air Lines is celebrating a decade of flying in Africa. Over the past 10 years, the airline has flown 4.2 million customers from Africa to the United States of America.

Delta’s first flight landed in Accra on December 12, 2006, a week after the inaugural service to Dakar-Senegal and Johannesburg-South Africa.

An additional service to Lagos-Nigeria was added a year later. Since then, Delta has become the leading airline between the United States and Africa, as well as the only one to link North America with Ghana and Senegal nonstop.

“Delta has invested billions of dollars to enhance the service we offer our customers in Africa and across the globe since our inaugural flights here,” said Jimmy Eichelgruen, Delta’s Sales Director for Africa, India and the Middle East.

“We have added fully flat-bed seats, on-demand entertainment and Wi-Fi to every flight across the Atlantic.

“Travelers will also now find regional cuisine and dedicated airport facilities but one thing that hasn’t changed is our commitment to offering the same levels of customer service that have made us the favourite U.S. airline serving this continent”, Mr. Eichelgruen explained.

A press release copied to The Chronicle indicated that Delta currently flies nonstop to four points in Africa; Accra-Ghana, Dakar-Senegal, Johannesburg-South Africa and Lagos-Nigeria.

Some of Delta’s other notable achievements in Africa over the last 10 years include: 22,000 flights operated between Africa and the United States, 95% of North America being accessible via one-stop connections in Atlanta and New York-JFK, being the only carrier to offer Wi-Fi on every flight and 9 million meals served on board.

Delta as part of its corporate social responsibility has formed partnerships with leading community organisations, such as Breast Care International in Ghana and the Amy Biehl Foundation in South Africa to improve the lives of their people.

 

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