NEW YORK, NY
Delta Air Lines Inc. will add more than 100 flights and 29 destinations at New York’s LaGuardia by mid-2012 as it builds the airport into a domestic hub and seeks to dominate the nation’s busiest aviation market.
It will be the biggest single expansion by any carrier at LaGuardia in “decades,” said airline officials at a New York news conference. The airline is spending $100 million at LaGuardia as it takes advantage of 132 flight slot pairs gained in a deal with US Airways Group Inc.
Delta’s growth at LaGuardia, coupled with a $1.2 billion expansion at John F. Kennedy International Airport, is aimed at winning business travelers.With the LaGuardia additions, the carrier said it will offer more than 400 daily domestic departures from New York’s three major airports, more than any other carrier.
