{"id":10444,"date":"2009-03-15T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/delta-unveils-sydney-la-launch-fares-2\/"},"modified":"2009-03-15T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T21:23:00","slug":"delta-unveils-sydney-la-launch-fares-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/03\/delta-unveils-sydney-la-launch-fares-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta unveils Sydney-LA launch fares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelweekly.com.au\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelweekly.com.au\/images\/tw_logo_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><span>Steve Jones<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cheapflights.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/04\/06\/delta1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.cheapflights.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/04\/06\/delta1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Delta Air Lines has further raised the stakes in the fierce trans-Pacific price war by announcing launch return air fares from Sydney to Los Angeles from $777 plus taxes and charges.<\/p>\n<p>Business class starts from $7,777 plus taxes and surcharges.<\/p>\n<p>Daily flights begin on July 3, subject to Government approval, with the launch fares on sale until April 9 for travel between July 3 and October 31.<\/p>\n<p>Flights will depart Sydney at 9.15am, arriving 6am the same day and return LA at 10.40pm arriving in Australia at 6.40am two days later.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier is also offering travel beyond LA with return economy fares from $977 plus taxes and surcharges to Atlanta, Boise, Detroit, Indianpolis, New York, Orlando, Memphis, New Orleans, Seattle, Salt Lake City and Cincinnati. Business class is $9,777.<\/p>\n<p>Delta will operate Boeing 777-200LR aircraft on the Sydney to LA route.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate development, the airline this morning confirmed that from today Global Aviation Services will represent both Delta and subsidiary Northwest Airlines in the Australian market.<\/p>\n<p><span>Stop Press:<\/span> Delta Airlines has just announced that &#8220;due to competitor activity&#8221; it&#8217;s cutting its launch fares between Australia and the USA to $747 plus taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The previous $777+taxes fare level was exclusively revealed in Friday&#8217;s Travel Daily and went on sale this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The $747+taxes economy fare utilises Delta&#8217;s extensive US network and is applicable for flights from Sydney via Los Angeles to Atlanta, Boise, Detroit, Indianapolis, New York, Orlando, Memphis, New Orleans, Seattle, Salt Lake City or Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>The special price is available for sales effective immediately until 09 Apr, for travel from 03 Jul-31 Oct 09.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jones Delta Air Lines has further raised the stakes in the fierce trans-Pacific price war by announcing launch return air fares from Sydney to Los Angeles from $777 plus taxes and charges. Business class starts from $7,777 plus taxes and surcharges. Daily flights begin on July 3, subject to Government approval, with the launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}