Delta Air Lines recently announced a surprising new destination from its hub in Salt Lake City. Starting December 4, the Utah capital will receive non-stop flights to Lima, Peru, for the first time. It is the second new intercontinental destination for Salt Lake City this year, following Delta’s first flight between SLC and Seoul, South Korea. With all of this happening, it gave me a feeling that Delta will start to make its first serious expansion in Salt Lake City in quite a while.
Before this, Delta opened a pilot training center at the airport back in December last year, which indicates its commitment to growing its Utah hub. While Delta has already been expanding in Seattle with the introduction of flights to Barcelona and Rome, as well as opening an A350 base there, Salt Lake City has been quite stagnant. But with the addition of Seoul and now Lima, it seems that there could be momentum for the future, and possibly result in Salt Lake City finally becoming a serious rival to United’s Denver hub.
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