Delta Air Lines on Thursday announced its first long haul service from Austin Bergstrom International Airport with nonstop flights to Paris Charles de Gaulle beginning March 27, 2027.
The carrier said the Austin to Paris route will operate daily during the summer flying season on an Airbus A330 900neo. Delta described the cabin layout as 29 Delta One suites, 28 Delta Premium Select seats, 56 extra legroom Comfort seats and 168 main cabin seats. Chief commercial officer Joe Esposito called the new route a defining milestone in the airline’s push in Austin.
Austin will gain its fourth nonstop European destination with the addition of Delta service. The city already offers British Airways flights to London Heathrow, KLM service to Amsterdam and Lufthansa flights to Frankfurt. Two of those routes involve SkyTeam partners, and the carriers said passengers can use SkyMiles or Flying Blue to book some flights.
Delta has markedly increased its presence at Austin in recent years, with departures up 85 percent from three years ago, Cirium data showed. The airline is also expanding airport infrastructure plans at AUS, including 15 additional gates and a second Sky Club that Delta says will be larger and more centrally located than its current outpost. Amy Martin, Delta’s vice president of network planning, told The Points Guy the carrier has made strong inroads and is gaining market share even as Southwest remains the dominant local carrier.
Delta also flagged several smaller route moves at Austin, including new nonstop service to San Diego beginning April 12 and a second daily nonstop to San Jose in April. The airline said its existing Austin to Cancun seasonal flight will become year round.
Onboard Wi Fi Incident And Response
A separate incident involving an unauthorized Wi Fi network briefly disrupted a Delta flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta on Monday, Aug. 10, when crew members turned off the aircraft’s internet for about 30 minutes. Delta told Fox News Digital that none of its systems were hacked and no aircraft operating systems were affected.
The airline said it is fully investigating the occurrence with federal law enforcement and aviation regulators. Social media posts claimed a rogue network named Delta WiFi Fast appeared and noted several passengers had attended a cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas.
Travel expert Lee Abbamonte told Fox News Digital that seeing an unauthorized network onboard is uncommon and that passengers should take care to join only the carrier’s official network. Abbamonte said the crew’s decision to disable Wi Fi while they investigated was appropriate and urged airlines to make the correct network name clear to travelers during announcements.
