Delta Air Lines’ longest Boeing 757-200 flight between Atlanta and Anchorage resumes this month

He is back. Delta Air Lines is preparing to reinstate its summer seasonal service between Atlanta and Anchorage, Alaska. It is the only airline to operate this route and will use its Boeing 757-200 for this journey of more than seven hours.

The service is expected to resume at the end of the month and will be Delta’s longest 757-200 route. From June to August, the carrier will offer more than 35,500 seats between the two destinations.

Flight details

According to aviation data and analytics company Cirium, the former US carrier has scheduled the service to return on May 23 and will continue until September 8. Flights will operate daily between its hub at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) and Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC), totaling 18 flights this month, or nine in each direction.

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The service will share the same flight number, regardless of the destination. Delta will likely schedule the same 757-200 to operate the return flight to ATL, as it is scheduled to depart approximately an hour and a half after arriving at ANC.

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The “75G”

Of the 18 flights scheduled this month, Delta will offer a total of 3,474 seats and 11,867,184 available seat miles (ASM) on the route. Each flight will accommodate 193 passengers, which suggests that Delta will use its “75G” version of its 757-200. This specific configuration is the second largest version of its five 757-200 configurations (75D, 75G, 75H, 75S, 75C). In a two-class configuration, the aircraft can accommodate 20 passengers in first class and 173 passengers in the main cabin. Forty-one seats in the main cabin are Delta Comfort+ seats with extra legroom.

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With daily frequencies, Delta will operate 60 flights in June with 11,580 seats. July and August have the same capacity, with 62 flights and 11,966 seats each month. While the airline will end its service in September, it has 16 flights scheduled, offering 3,088 seats before being discontinued on September 9.

Delta’s other long 757-200 routes

With an average of 3,416 miles, ATL-ANC will be the longest route in Delta’s 757-200 series. Its second-longest route is another summer seasonal service between its Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) to Keflavík International Airport (KEF) near Reykjavík, Iceland, spanning an average of 2,944 miles.

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The remaining four routes that exceed 2,500 miles by air involve Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Jose, Costa Rica and San Francisco.

Delta is the largest 757-200 operator, with 111 examples in total. Despite the deployment of this type of aircraft on long routes this summer, it does not hold the record for operating the longest 757-200 flight in the world. United Airlines beats the carrier with its transatlantic service, flying more than 3,900 miles between Newark, New Jersey, and Stockholm, Sweden.

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