Barely three months after Delta Air Lines launched direct flights between Melbourne and Los Angeles, the SkyTeam member has revealed plans to steadily increase those flights to a daily service.
Delta’s current thrice-weekly flights will continue through to October, at which point they uplift to four days (October 13) and then five days (October 27) per week, a Delta spokesperson confirmed to Executive Traveller.
From December 22 they’ll be boosted to the convenience of a daily schedule.
That daily timetable will remain in place to the end of March 2027, at which point it will toggle back to a steady five days per week.
The 15-hour flights are undertaken by Delta’s modern Airbus A350 – the only A350 on this trans-Pacific route, compared to the Boeing 787-9s of Qantas and United Airlines.
And this is Delta’s premium skew of the A350, boasting a larger business class cabin of 40 doored Delta One suites, up from the standard 32 berths.
Those 40 suites are matched by 40 Delta Premium Select recliners, with a 38” pitch, in their own cabin.
“We’ve seen tremendous growth and demand for premium travel, for enhanced comfort and a better experience,” noted Rob LeBel, Delta’s Managing Director for International & Specialty Sales.
“We’ve especially seen tremendously strong demand for Premium Select.”https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/delta-melbourne-lax-flights
