Delta Airlines, the third largest airline in the world, announced this Friday that starting in May 2024 it will add a second daily frequency to its flights between New York and Barcelona, ??reaching 14 weekly frequencies between both cities.
Delta, with headquarters in Atlant, from where it also flies to Barcelona, ??arrives from New York to El Prat using its Kennedy airport hub. The largest company in the world also does so from JFK airport: American. In this case with a daily link between both cities. Level, the IAG group company operated by Iberia, dedicated to long-haul flights based in Barcelona, ??also flies to New York’s main airport. In the case of New York-JFK, Level will have daily flights between both cities starting April 1, 2024. In the months prior to next year’s aeronautical summer, it will fly between 3 and 5 weekly frequencies.
To the daily flights between Barcelona and New York of Delta, American and Level, we must add those of United Airlines, the second largest airline in the world, which in New York has its operations center in Newark, in the state of New Jersey. . This airport, also called Liberty Airport since 2002, after the 9/11 attacks, is the second most important of the facilities that serve the hinterland of New York.
The undisputed leader of the region is JFK, which in 2022 reached 55.2 million passengers, while Newark had 43.5 million travelers. The rest of the so-called airport system in the region is made up of LaGuardia, an airport basically used for internal links in the United States and also flights to Canada, which in 2022 were used by almost 30 million passengers. It is followed by Stewart Airport, a little-known facility north of the Hudson and west of Manhattan, which last year touched 300,000 users, and finally there is Teterboro, a facility focused on private, corporate and business aviation that is the airport used by Private planes that also fly direct, although less frequently, and passengers between Barcelona and New York.
With Delta’s double daily commitment on the links between the Prat and JFK airports, the Catalan capital will now have a small intercontinental air bridge with New York. This will add 70 weekly flights in both directions. In the case of Delta Airlines, Matteo Curcio, vice president of the airline for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India, commented yesterday that Catalonia is a very popular destination for Americans both for tourism and commerce, while New York is the main financial center in the world and gateway to the Americas. “Expanding our links between these two cities is an important catalyst for future growth in the business and leisure sectors,” he added.
The company’s two daily flights from Atlanta will be operated with Boeing 767-300 aircraft, while United’s flights will be with the Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner model. American Airlines’ Barcelona-JFK are scheduled for 2024 on Boeing 777-200 and Level’s on Airbus A330-200. Among all these airlines, the air links between Barcelona and New York will have the highest capacity in their history.
