Delta Air Lines Adding Additional Westbound Flights February 11, 2010

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Delta Air Lines today announced it will increase westbound service from three North Dakota cities with its summer 2010 schedule. By June, Delta will add two new daily round-trip flights between its Salt Lake City hub and Bismarck and Minot, as well as an additional daily round-trip flight between Salt Lake City and Fargo.

North Dakotans will benefit greatly from Delta's new westbound connections to the Salt Lake City hub, making it faster and more convenient to travel from their hometowns to points across the Mountain West, West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii, said Bob Cortelyou, senior vice president  Network Planning. With Delta's expanded westbound schedule, business travelers in Bismarck, Fargo and Minot will now have the choice of doing business in cities across the West Coast and returning home the same day.

Added Melissa McLaughlin, Delta's national sales manager for North Dakota: As North Dakota's leading airline, we take very seriously our commitment to making travel accessible between our home state and the more than 350 cites Delta serves around the globe.

With the summer 2010 schedule, Delta plans to offer North Dakota customers 34 peak-day departures from six airports: nine from Bismarck; two from Devils Lake; nine from Fargo; five from Grand Forks; two from Jamestown; and seven from Minot. The new flights from Minot will be the first ever offered to the Salt Lake City hub.

Customers traveling between North Dakota and Salt Lake City will benefit from convenient connections to more than 300 peak-day departures to nearly 90 worldwide destinations, including international flights to Tokyo-Narita, Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Mexico City. In addition to expanded service to Salt Lake City, Delta offers daily flights between the six North Dakota airports it serves and its hub at Minneapolis-St. Paul. Delta's expanded service from Fargo will be operated by Delta Connection carrier SkyWest Airlines using 70-seat CRJ-700 regional jets. These jets feature two-by-two seating with no middle seats.

Delta's new Fargo flights, will be available for sale to customers beginning Saturday, Feb. 13.

Expanded daily nonstop service between Fargo and Salt Lake City.

Flight	Departs	Arrives	Effective	Aircraft
4826*	Fargo at 6:25 AM	Salt Lake City at 7:55 AM	Existing service	CRJ-700
4919	Fargo at 5:35 PM	Salt Lake City at 7:05 PM	June 10, 2010	CRJ-700
4919	Salt Lake City at 1:45 PM	Fargo at 5:05 PM	June 10, 2010	CRJ-700
4505**	Salt Lake City at 7:45 PM	Fargo at 11:05 PM	Existing service	CRJ-700
*Flight renumbered for summer 2010 schedule         **Flight retimed for summer 2010 schedule