Inaugural Delta flight arrives Sunday from L.A.
Starting this weekend, Belizeans will have the opportunity to travel non-stop to one of their favourite destinations abroad … although they’ll have to wake up early to make the flight. Around six-thirty on Sunday morning Delta Airlines’ inaugural flight from Los Angeles will land at the Philip Goldson International Airport. The service will be offered every Sunday until July fifteenth and then resume in November for the winter tourist season. According to Delta Sales Manager Gladys Enriquez, if traffic picks up, the route will become a regular option for local travellers.
Gladys Enriquez, Sales manager, Belize Delta Airlines
“If the demand is good, of course, we are here to stay. For the meantime it’s going to be a seasonal flight, but it all depends on the traffic. But we are very positive that the traffic is going to be really good, I know there are a lot of Belizeans in Los Angeles.”
“The flight will be arriving at six-thirty in the morning and it will depart here at eight in the morning, so actually passengers will be able to get to Los Angeles kind of early, at noon and will be able to make other connections.”
“We are travelling to fifty countries around the world and we are the number two carrier in the United States in terms passengers and the number two carrier for Trans-Atlantic routes also. So I invite all the Belizeans to please fly Delta Airlines, try this new service, and don’t forget that we also have our daily flight to Atlanta everyday and we second frequency to Atlanta on Saturdays. So I mean, actually we are gonna have three flights here in Belize.”
According to Enriquez, the first flight is about three quarters full. The cost of a round trip ticket to L.A. on Delta is approximately eleven hundred dollars.
In other news from the P.G.I.A., expansion work continues on the runway and internal infrastructure. Our visit today, however, revealed that B.E.L.’s light poles have yet to be moved, along with two houses at the end of the runway. This afternoon the occupants told News Five that they do plan to leave the location as soon as their new accommodations are ready.
