Delta just scrapped the country's longest flight

The longest domestic route ever changed into as soon as a short-lived flight between Paris and Papeete, the capital of the French territory in Polynesia. The Air Tahiti Nui flight took unbiased over 16 hours and 26 minutes and ran temporarily in March and April 2020 (it changed into as soon as launched to relief away from world connections all the procedure in which by the COVID-19 lockdowns). On the different hand, it changed into as soon as costly and no longer current ample with passengers.

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Delta's spoiled-nation, spoiled ocean flight appears to be like to have been grounded

The title of the longest domestic flight in the U.S. changed into as soon as no longer too lengthy ago nabbed by Delta Air Lines (DAL) when it launched a brand new Boston-Honolulu route in November 2024.

The 5,095-mile day lag a chunk bit beats out the nation's 2d-longest route between New York and Honolulu. That route is peaceful served by both Delta and Alaska Airlines (ALK) .

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Paused in February 2025, Delta's Boston flight changed into as soon as designed as a seasonal route that changed into as soon as first and valuable speculated to be brought relief for the brand new solar-making an are trying to to find season in November.

However as first observed by numerous local Hawaii files stores, it no longer comes up on either Delta's online page or Google Flights (GOOGL) . Delta has yet to formally issue that the seasonal flight has been scrapped.

The airline first introduced the Boston-Honolulu path to great fanfare in February 2024. It changed into as soon as a part of the airline's efforts to broaden its footprint in Daniel Ok. Inouye World Airport (HNL) by rising flight frequencies from Salt Lake City and Seattle.

On the time, Delta's SVP of Network Planning Joe Esposito known because it "strengthening our roots within our well-positioned U.S. hubs to envision elevated quiz."

With Delta canceling the route, right here is how East Waft residents can fetch to Hawaii

However while the 11-hour narrate flight to Honolulu from New York continues to query real quiz, running it from the much less populous city of Boston grew to become out to no longer be as winning as Delta had first and valuable anticipated.

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Extra than one airways continue to present flights between New York and Honolulu, although the extra frequent system for East Coasters to fetch to the Aloha Declare is to transfer by Seattle, Los Angeles or San Francisco.

Such West Waft hubs provide drastically extra service to the Aloha Declare with flights to other islands like Maui, Kauai and the Big Island of Hawaii. Closing November, Southwest Airlines (LUV) also drastically expanded its Hawaii service by launching its first crimson-behold flights to Honolulu from Phoenix and Las Vegas apart from to new routes to Kahului Airport (OGG) on Maui, Lihue Airport (LIH) on Kauai and Kailua-Kona (KOA) on the Big Island from the identical cities.

"The 5 new flights will elevate connectivity from the Hawaiian Islands to dozens of Southwest locations," Southwest said of the brand new routes on the time.

Launching flights to Hawaii from secondary cities is always a push-and-pull between filling a definite section no longer illustrious by competitors and persevering with to relief the main site traffic to relief the route winning — many vacationers lament about no longer having an instant flight to their favorite lag destination, however booking numbers originate no longer always manufacture it precious for the airline.

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