The China Post
Date: January 14, 2017
By: CNA
TAIPEI — U.S.-based carrier Delta Air Lines announced Friday that it was terminating its only route that
n this in June 2008 photo, a Delta Airlines Boeing 767 passenger jet takes off at Stuttgart Airport, Germany. (Captured from the internet)
serves Taiwan, with effect from May 25.
Delta Air currently operates one round-trip flight per day between Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and Narita Airport in Tokyo, catering mostly to passengers traveling to and from the United States via Japan.
The Delta flight between Taoyuan and Narita on May 24 will be the last one on that route, said the carrier, which is based in Atlanta, Georgia.
The airline said it plans to shift more flights to Tokyo Haneda Airport but did not explain clearly why that would mean closing the Taiwan route, which it has been operating since 2010.
In a report last August, the U.S.-based Star Tribune newspaper, said Delta was ending some of its Narita routes, apparently as a result of changes to aviation rules. [FULL STORY]
