The new route to Rio de Janeiro — the third that Delta and LATAM have announced since the Joint Venture was approved in September 2022 — will operate daily on Delta’s Boeing 767-300 aircraft featuring Delta One, Delta Premium Select, Delta Comfort+ and Main Cabin service.

LATAM will be the only airline operating a nonstop flight between Brazil and Los Angeles, where customers will have connections to the Delta hub's most popular destinations on the West Coast of the United States, including San Francisco, Las Vegas and Seattle.

Once implemented, the approval enables Delta and LATAM Airlines Group, LATAM Airlines Brasil, LATAM Airlines Colombia, LATAM Airlines Peru and LATAM Airlines Paraguay to begin the work of unlocking new customer and cargo benefits.

Antilla will lead Delta’s regional business and customer experience strategy, and the airline’s partnerships with LATAM and Aeromexico.

Delta's investments in Virgin Atlantic, Aeromexico and LATAM reinforce the airline's global strategy that fueled record growth pre-pandemic.

The expansion adds more than 20 U.S.-South America routes plus connections to a broad range of domestic and regional destinations from their hubs in Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, Santiago, Lima, Bogota, and São Paulo. Customers will be able to earn and redeem miles / points and accrue qualifying points ...

The approval of the extrajudicial agreement between Delta, LATAM, and the National Economic Prosecutor's Office by Chile’s Tribunal for the Defense of Free Competition is one more step toward the two airlines achieving the implementation of their Joint Venture Agreement.