Berlin Brandenburg Airport, BER for short, is making its mark. According to reports, he should get another intercontinental connection. The US airline Delta Air Lines wants to connect it daily with New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) from next spring. This is reported by the specialist media Aviacionline and Simple Flying. The company confirmed to the Berliner Zeitung that the presentation is correct.
The new non-stop route across the Atlantic is scheduled to begin operations on May 25, 2023, according to the reports. According to the timetable, flight DL92 departs New York at 8:40 p.m. The new Schönefeld Airport should be reached on the next day at 10.50 a.m. At 12:50 p.m., we return from BER to the USA. Flight DL93 is scheduled to arrive in New York at 3:50 p.m. local time.
United already flies to the New York area – but to Newark
According to Aviacionline, Delta intends to use Boeing 767-300(ER) aircraft between BER and JFK. They have 216 seats for passengers.
The representation was “accurate,” said Delta spokesman Drake X. Castañeda of the Berliner Zeitung on request. “We have nothing to add at this time.”
With the new transatlantic route, the airline is adding Berlin to its route network again after a 41-month break. Delta had previously headed for Tegel Airport. The airline resumed the Berlin connection in May 2017 after a break of several years. The demand for the seasonally offered connection developed well – until Corona brought the demand in air traffic in Berlin to almost zero. In 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, Delta did not resume service on its route to the German capital. Tegel was closed for flight operations at the end of October 2020 with the opening of BER.
The number of long-haul connections to the new Berlin airport is growing
There is now a direct flight connection between the German capital region and the USA again. As reported, since the end of March 2022, United Airlines has been flying daily non-stop to Newark Liberty International Airport, located 17 kilometers from New York on the other side of the Hudson River. The US airline has announced that it will operate the route seasonally. Traffic is expected to last until the end of October this year. Originally, United also wanted to head for Washington from BER, but this route has not yet been set up.
United Airlines has been flying between Berlin-Tegel and Newark since 2005. But when the demand for flight tickets fell sharply at the beginning of the corona pandemic, traffic also ended on this route. There are currently three direct long-distance connections to and from BER. “From the first day of the new airport, Qatar Airways will fly from there to Doha,” said airport boss Aletta von Massenbach. Then Scoot joined Singapore. Smartlynx, a Latvian airline, now flies to Dubai from BER. From August 17, 2022, the Norwegian airline Norse Atlantic Airways wants to connect BER with New York’s JFK. Two days later, a route to Los Angeles will be added. Dreamliners are used.
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