Monday, April 11, 2011

Delta puts off Kenya, Liberia routes - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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Delta’s Liberia route, scheduled to commence June 8, is also postponed Atlanta-based Delta (NYSE: DAL) said Homelanx Security officials notified the carrier late Mondayg it would require additionaol time toapprove Delta’s announced routes to Nairobi, Kenya, and Monrovia, "Delta regrets any inconvenience to our customers causefd by the postponement of our new direcy service to Kenya and Liberia,” the carrierf said in a statement. Delta said it is contacting affected customers and booking them on flightw operated byAir France, KLM and its othee partners in SkyTeam. The flights will connecg to Africa throughthose carriers’ Europeam hubs, Delta said.
The Kenya routee was to originate in Atlanta and connect to Nairobii with a stopin Dakar, Delta’s Liberia route, scheduled to commence June 8, is also postpones indefinitely. Those passengers are also being Africa has been a point of growth for which is theonly U.S-baser airline that flies its own aircraft to the continent. Delta currently services six destinations in fiveAfricam nations: Accra, Ghana; Cairo, Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa; Lagos, and Dakar, Senegal.

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