{"id":15412,"date":"2024-02-27T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-air-lines-virgin-atlantic-record-heathrow-us-flights-summer-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T12:00:12","slug":"wow-delta-air-lines-virgin-atlantic-have-record-us-london-heathrow-flights-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=15412","title":{"rendered":"Wow: Delta Air Lines & Virgin Atlantic Have Record US-London Heathrow Flights This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delta<\/a> has served London Heathrow Airport since 2008. This coincided with the signing of the EU-US open skies agreement, which replaced the highly restrictive Bermuda II agreement. This meant the carrier could finally fly to the UK's busiest airport. Sixteen years later, Delta – and transatlantic joint venture partner Virgin Atlantic<\/a>, of which it owns 49% – have a record number of US flights this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Departures are 6% above the previous record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,565,1022,85,532],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-15412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-delta-air-lines","category-london-heathrow-airport","category-uk","category-virgin-atlantic","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t