Delta will now fly to Athens, Tel Aviv from Boston
From the Athens of America to the Athens of Greece, within months
Beginning next May, American airline Delta will be introducing a non-stop flight schedule between Boston in the United States and Athens in Greece.
According to the Israeli website Globes, Delta will also be launching three weekly flights between Boston and Tel Aviv next May. On those routes, the website reports, the aircraft used will be a 281-seat A330-900neo.
It appears the older, 293-seat A330 will be the aircraft in use on the 4,732-mile Boston-Athens route. It is recalled that last month a Delta A330-300 airliner en route from Atlanta to Greece made an emergency landing at Athens International Airport.
While some websites surmise that Delta’s move is a riposte to American Airlines’ oddball partnership with JetBlue, we’re not sold. Prior to the pandemic, Greece’s (former) Minister of Tourism Harry Theoharis told us that putting a Boston-Athens non-stop on the grid was a priority, and talks with airlines like Norwegian were on the radar. That troubled airline has since ceased all of its long-haul operations.
Aquisition of either the newer Airbus A350 or Boeing 787 Dreamliner by Greece’s fine flag carrier Aegean would enable Greece to reinstate non-stop flights between Los Angeles and Athens. There have been no nonstop flights from the West Coast to Greece since the heyday of Olympic Airways.
