Delta Announces flight from Minneapolis to San Jose

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Delta is one of the airlines that have imposed flights since the company AVIANCA-TACA put an end to some of its connections to Costa Rica.

Delta Airlines, one of the most important Airlines with a large presence in Latin America, and the United States announced that it will operate a temporary flight, during the periods from December 21 to 29 March (holiday high season), from Minneapolis to the Juan Santa Maria International Airport.

This new route will be operated by Boeing 757 aircraft, with capacity for 180 passengers and that as mentioned above, will begin to operate from the month of December, day 2.

Route which will implement Delta Airlines temporarily, consists of a non-stop flight from the city of Minneapolis to the airport Juan Santa Maria. This flight comes a part of routes already existing company between Costa Rica and the United States.

The new route of Delta Airlines already is ready to be bought by internet, recalling that flights will begin to operate from the month of December.

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 country could lose some 7,000 tourists each month due to the cancellation of routes

the Minister of tourism of Costa Rica, Allan Flores, commented on 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".

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

Costa Rica receives approximately two million tourists a year, many of them are from the United States, and so the inclusion of new routes promotes the arrival of Americans in the country and from other countries that use United States as transit country.

Posted by Costa Developers