Delta Airlines offers new flight direct from USA to Costa Rica airline Delta

Delta takes advantage of a moment in the AVIANCA-TACA agency withdrew important flights from the United States

Delta Airlines recently announced an important route between Costa Rica and the United States; Los Angeles-San Jose.

This flight will begin operations on July 1 and will have capacity of 180 passengers on each trip.

Los Angeles-San José route will be operated by a Boeing 757-200 that will operate with 24 seats in first class and 156 in economy class.

This new route is now available for bookings through the website delta.com or at travel agencies.

In addition to the daily flight to Los Angeles, also adds to this two daily flights between San Jose and Atlanta.

"We continue to offer our customers the convenience of new routes to most popular like San Jose and Los Angeles business and tourism destinations", said María Fernanda Price, regional manager of Delta sales to Central America and the Caribbean.

Delta made the announcement of these new flights within the framework of the cancellation of important routes of the TACA-AVIANCA airline, last Friday.

TACA-AVIANCA eliminated five direct flights and laid off more than 260 employees from its operations in the country.

Costa Rica Tourism Chamber estimated that the Central American country could lose some 7,000 tourists each month due to the cancellation of routes

the Minister of tourism of Costa Rica also made reference to the new decision of Delta Airlines. "There are some of these routes that already they won't be operated by Avianca, which have been taken by other airlines as it is the case of Delta Airlines that starting from July 1, San Jose - Los Angeles will operate the route", said Allan Flores, Tourism Minister of Costa Rica.

Despite the problems that may cause the airline AVIANCA-TACA decision already measures are taken to avoid these situations will continue in the future.

Posted by Costa Developers