Delta Airlines to fly to Monrovia

Delta Air Lines is to officially launch its Accra –Monrovia operations, effective next month.

The new service will provide additional transport links between Ghana and Liberia, helping to facilitate business and commerce in both countries.

The service will operate twice weekly, using Boeing 767-300 aircraft equipped with 34 Business Elite seats and 181 seats in Economy.

Mr. Bobby Bryan, Commercial Manager, East and West Africa, at a media interaction in Accra said: “The new Delta service launching on February 2 will provide increased choice of intra-Africa services for our Ghanaian customers, complementing our existing services to the United States,” commented Bobby Bryan, Delta's Sales Manager for West and East Africa.

Delta currently operates a three-times-weekly service between Accra and Atlanta, and a four-times-weekly schedule between Accra and New York.

These flights provide over 200 convenient onward connections to destinations in the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Delta has served Ghana since December 2006, during which time more than 325,000 passengers have flown with the airline between Ghana and the United States.

Currently, it operates five weekly nonstop flights between Accra–New York and three weekly nonstop flights between Accra–Atlanta and more than 3,000 seats between Accra and the United States each week.

Delta - leading U.S. airline to Africa with service to seven destinations across the continent, serves more than 160 million customers each year with an industry leading global network.

It is investing more than US$2billion through 2013 in airport facilities and global products, services and technology to enhance the customer experience in the air and on the ground.

Delta and the Delta Connection carriers offer services to 357 destinations in 67 countries on six continents.