{"id":190031,"date":"2015-01-22T04:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=190031"},"modified":"2015-01-22T04:00:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:00:59","slug":"delta-launch-daily-la-shanghai-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/delta-launch-daily-la-shanghai-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta to launch daily LA, Shanghai flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOS ANGELES<\/strong>\u2014Delta Air Lines plans to begin daily nonstop service between Los Angeles International Airport and Shanghai-Pudong Airport on July 9, 2015, pending U.S. Department of Transportation and foreign government approval.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles market makes up 25 percent of all U.S.-Asia demand, and the start of Shanghai service marks Delta\u2019s fourth daily nonstop flight to the Asia-Pacific region in addition to Tokyo-Narita, Tokyo-Haneda and Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Delta\u2019s Los Angeles-Shanghai flight will connect customers to more than 25 cities in China, while the Los Angeles-bound Shanghai flight will offer connections to 40 markets throughout the U.S., Canada and Latin America. The route will operate using a 291-seat Boeing 777-200LR aircraft with 37 full flat-bed seats in BusinessElite, 36 seats in Economy Comfort and 218 seats in Economy class.<\/p>\n<p>Combined with its hubs in Detroit, Seattle and Tokyo-Narita, Delta will operate 42 weekly departures to China\u2019s global financial center. Additionally, Delta offers daily service to China\u2019s capital, Beijing, from both Seattle and Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>With recent international additions, Delta serves the top five Asian markets from Seattle: Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelta\u2019s new nonstop service provides our business customers with more access to Shanghai and markets beyond through our partnerships with China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines,\u201d said Ranjan Goswami, Delta\u2019s vice president of Sales &#8211; West. \u201cThis route was the most requested by our corporate customers, and everyone will enjoy the investments we\u2019ve made to upgrade our airport facilities, our onboard service, full flat-bed seats with direct aisle access in BusinessElite, and industry-leading complimentary in-flight entertainment.\u201d <strong>(Delta Air Lines)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014Delta Air Lines plans to begin daily nonstop service between Los Angeles International Airport&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[211,634,338,765],"class_list":["post-190031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-beijing","tag-canada","tag-hong-kong","tag-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}