Delta Air Lines has announced its busiest-ever flying program from its home base at Atlanta for the northern summer of 2025. The airline will increase frequencies on some routes and commence services on others, cementing Atlanta-Hartsfield International Airport’s (ATL) position as the world’s busiest airport.
For the summer of 2025, Delta will offer 1.1 million weekly seats over 968 daily flights with services to 215 destinations – its largest schedule ever operated from its hometown airport. The program adds around 75 additional daily departures over its summer 2024 schedule, as the airline reaffirms its commitment to the world’s largest airline hub.
Delta’s international footprint from Atlanta has continued to grow throughout 2024 and the carrier now serves 66 international destinations from the facility. In 2025, the airline will add recently announced new flights to Naples (Italy) and Brussels (Belgium) as well as increase frequencies to other destinations including Rome, Zurich, Barcelona, Athens, Cancun, Toronto, Barbados, and Curacao.
Across its domestic network, the airline will continue to increase its flight schedules in the US. The expanded flying includes the carrier’s largest-ever schedule with in its home state of Georgia to improve regional connectivity across the Peach State. This will include 20% more intra-state seats to cities such as Savannah, Augusta, Albany, Brunswick, Columbus, and Valdosta.
“Home to the world’s busiest and most efficient airport, Atlanta’s position as a global leader for cultural and business connectivity is only enhanced by Delta’s expansion of their domestic and international network,” said Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens. “As our hometown airline and the state’s largest private employer, Delta plays an integral role in our economy through workforce opportunities, community investments, and meaningful partnerships.”
Delta states it will be continuing to focus on offering higher comfort levels on flights from Atlanta with 87% of all departures from the airport currently being operated on mainline aircraft – a figure that represents an increase of 8% from the 79% seen in 2019.
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Atlanta has grown alongside Delta to become a key global travel center as the airline’s largest network hub where the carrier made up over 70% of the airport’s total passenger traffic in 2023. Over the past decade, Delta has invested more than $12 billion in modernizing and upgrading its facilities at Atlanta, including contributing significantly to the airport’s $10.8 billion redevelopment program, which includes expanding Concourse D, plans to open a new Delta Sky Club before summer 2025 and the introduction of a touchless experience at bag drop and security using Digital ID.
According to a Delta statement, “Atlanta travelers enjoy Delta’s highly convenient schedules. With 56 markets featuring eight or more daily flights, Delta offers the frequency that both business travelers and families need for easy planning, ensuring flights are available when and where customers need them most.”
“Delta is also at the heart of Atlanta’s economic infrastructure, anchoring Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as a major driver of growth. As Delta’s hometown hub, the airline employs more than 36,000 people and continually invests in enhancing operations and community initiatives,” the statement adds.
Highlighting this point, in 2023 alone, travel and tourism contributed nearly $80 billion to Georgia’s economy and supported more than 463,000 jobs, as reported by the Georgia Department of Economic Development.
“Delta delivers positive impacts statewide. Tourism to Georgia creates jobs and opportunities from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Golden Isles, including generating a record $5 billion in state and local tax revenues in 2023,” said Georgia Department of Economic Development Commissioner Pat Wilson.
“The connectivity provided by Delta also supports increased business-related travel, which grew year-over-year by nearly 10 million travelers and more than $1 billion in spending in 2023. And with Delta TechOps as the largest airline maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) provider in North America, Delta is making a difference in Georgia’s aerospace ecosystem, too,” Wilson concluded.