The results are inside!
Last month, the clients and employees of Delta Air Lines I have to vote in whose European destination the operator would be launched as its next destination.
The options that Delta offered: Sardinia in Italy, Malta or Ibiza, part of the Balearic Islands of Spain.
After almost 150,000 votes, two winners emerged.
Skymiles Delta The members crowned Sardinia as the winner, but Malta received most of the votes of the Atlanta -based airline employees.
The verdict: Delta will launch the service to both islands for the summer of 2026, with both routes that leave its center at the John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York.
JFK flights to Sardinia’s Italian island will be launched on May 20, 2026, days before the weekend of the Fallen Day and the great increase in summer trips.
Delta will operate its Sardinia route four times a week through the Olbia Costa Smereld (SLB) airport, located in the northeast part of the island.
The flights to Malta, the Nation of the Mediterranean island south of Sicily, begin on June 7, 2026 and work three times a week, inside and outside the Malta International Airport (MLA).
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The reserves were immediately launched on Tuesday, both for passengers who paid their flights and the members of Skymiles who expected to exchange miles.
Most of the Skymiles reimbursements that I found for next summer began somewhere between 70,000 and 80,000 miles, round trip, to Sardinia, although here there is an option of end of summer for just less than 70,000 miles (or more than 200,000 for Delta One).
The Sardinia itinerary includes an exit of the 6:25 PM of JFK, with a local arrival of the 9 am to 9 am to Olbia. On the way home, I would leave at 11 pm of Sardinia hour, arriving just after 2:30 pm in JFK.
The Malta award space seemed to be loading, yet, but I found a similar pricing settings for a round trip trip.
The itinerary of those flights: a slightly earlier JFK out of the 5 PM, with an arrival of 8:20 am the next day to MLA. It is a morning game on the return, landing in New York a little before the 3 PM EDT.
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Delta let the voters decide
Delta’s approach for his last European expansion was the head for an airline, which allowed the members and employees of loyalty to intervene on where he sends their planes; Airlines usually maintain their decisions about routes and destinations near the vest.
“Now we can say that our network is not only built for our most loyal customers, but for them,” said Paul Baldoni, senior vice president of Delta’s network planning, in a statement announcing the news.
That is not the only reason why Sardinia and Malta are new innovative destinations for travelers.
Currently, no airline connects the United States with Sardinia or Malta (the same would also have been true for Ibiza).
Both should be new options for travelers at a time when flyers have He continued to go in southern Europe In mass, even to the nearby Sicily, Italy, where both Delta and the best competitor United Airlines launched the service without stopping last summer.
We must also point out that both Sardinia and Malta have some hotels that can reserve with points, including the new W sardinia-Potu Quatu, part of the Marriott Bonvoy briefcase.
Aircraft plans
Delta will operate both routes from JFK with its Boeing 767-300ER, specifically, its 267 267 cabins that are configured with Delta One and Premium Select Seats.
Customers who reserve the airline Delta Delta will have access to the airline elegant Delta One Lounge And a dedicated, Semi -instead safety input In the JFK 4 terminal.
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