Atlanta Business Chronicle
by Carla Caldwell
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE: DAL) and Russia’s Aeroflot are strengthening relations because of a codeshare agreement reached at the end of 2011, reports eTurboNews.com.
Delta sells connecting service on Russian flights to destinations including Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Samara, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Ekaterinburg. The Russian airlines sells connecting service on Delta routes including those to Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Boston, Washington National and Chicago, the global travel news site reported.
Perry Cantarutti, Delta’s senior vice president Europe, Middle East, Africa and India, said the airline in 2011 carried around 90,000 passengers on its Russia-U.S. routes, the site reported.
