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New flights serve Caribbean markets, domestic cities as carrier continues to grow in New York. Delta Air Lines has added a flight to Nassau from New York’s LaGuardia Airport as Delta expands its reach into the Caribbean and parts of the United States.

Seat purchases for daily flights from LaGuardia went on sale November 12 at delta.com and at other ticket outlets. The New York to Nassau flight also comes with an attractive introductory fare of $99 plus taxes and fees, one way, in either direction.

Delta’s latest expansion in New York City manifested 12 new daily flights to 11 domestic and Caribbean destinations in spring and summer 2012.

In March, Delta will add new frequencies between New York-JFK and Santo Domingo and Santiago, Dominican Republic; and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Delta also will launch new nonstop service between New York-LaGuardia and Nassau, Bahamas. The new and expanded Caribbean routes will serve significant local demand for flights to those markets.
In addition, Delta in June will add new routes and frequencies to seven U.S. cities from New York-JFK, including Austin, Texas; Jacksonville, Fla.; Kansas City, Mo.; New Orleans; Milwaukee; San Francisco; and Los Angeles. At JFK, customers will enjoy convenient access to destinations across the globe from Delta’s international hub.

With a new daily flight in each city, Delta will offer a total of eight peak-day flights to Los Angeles and six peak-day to San Francisco from New York-JFK.

“Our expanded service to these key Caribbean and domestic destinations reinforces our ongoing commitment to our customers in New York,” said Gail Grimmett, Delta’s senior vice president – New York. “With our planned expansion at LaGuardia Airport, and our terminal renovation and expansion at JFK, Delta is continuing to position itself as the preferred carrier for customers traveling to and from New York.”

All flights will be operated with dual-class aircraft. Tickets for all the destinations became available for sale Nov. 12 at delta.com and other ticketing outlets.

Delta has made major investments across the New York region over the past decade, boosting its economic impact to more than $13 billion annually. The carrier is building an expanded concourse as part of a $1.2 billion project to enhance Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, creating a state-of-the-art gateway for New York’s fastest-growing global airline when it opens in 2013.

Delta also recently received approval from the U.S. Department of Transportation for a slot transaction with US Airways which will allow it to approximately double the number of nonstop destinations it serves from LaGuardia, adding as many as 4 million additional roundtrip seats available at LaGuardia without increasing congestion. Delta will invest $100 million creating an expanded main terminal at LaGuardria, with a new 600-foot connector bridge between terminals D and C.