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Headed into Q4 of 2023, U.S. airlines are preparing for some of the busiest travel months of the year with Thanksgiving and December holidays, adding some domestic widebody flights. Typically seeing heavy usage in the summer, U.S. airlines tend to wind down some long-haul widebody flying as the IATA season ends in late October. Delta just recently added more domestic long-haul flights to its network.
The Atlanta-based airline often adds widebody aircraft to leisure-heavy destinations during busy travel times, sometimes operating routes to Florida or the West Coast from its main hub in Atlanta, although that doesn’t rule out oddball widebody routes that do occasionally exist. First notes by Ishrion Aviation on Twitter/X, Delta has loaded three new domestic widebody flights to its system, these include the following;
According to data from Cirium, during the months of November and December of 2023, Delta will operate 2,358 domestic flights within the continental U.S. on widebodies. United is the largest operator of domestic widebodies during this same period at 3,365 flights with American being the smallest at 1,092.
Count of continental U.S. widebody operations for the big three carriers for the months of October through November 2023 (Graph: created with Cirium data)
As mentioned above, the majority of Delta’s widebody domestic routes are either between hubs, cross country, or on routes to Florida. But, there are some one-offs, such as flights using a Boeing 767-300 from JFK to Portland as well as a Boeing 767-400 flight from Raleigh to Atlanta, among others.
All routes and schedules are subject to change, and all schedule data was pulled from publicly accessible websites Delta.com, as well as Cirium data.
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