Overall Delta Expansion at Boston in the Upcoming Year

With all the recent new route announcements from Delta, I wanted to create one post to highlight the true scale of the airline's and its partners' expansion in the upcoming year from Boston.
Amsterdam, Netherlands- KLM launches new service - March 31
London-Heathrow- Additional daylight trip by Virgin Atlantic - April 1
Cleveland- Delta launches new 3x daily service - April 1
Pittsburgh- Delta increases from 4x to 5x trips - April 2
Seoul-Incheon, South Korea - Korean launches 5x weekly service - April 12
Jacksonville, Fla. - Delta increases from 2x to 3x trips - April 14
Nashville, Tenn. - Delta increases from 3x to 4x trips - April 15
Edinburgh, Scotland - Delta launches seasonal daily service - May 23
Lisbon, Portugal - Delta launches seasonal daily service - May 23
Indianapolis - Delta increases from 3x to 4x trips - June 8
Philadelphia - Delta increases from 4x to 6x trips - June 8
Chicago O’Hare - Delta launches new 5x daily service - Sept. 9
Newark, N.J. - Delta launches new 4x daily service - Sept. 9
Washington, D.C. (Reagan National) - Delta launches new 6x daily service - Sept. 9
Although most of these are small regional routes, I suspect Delta will continue adding service, on larger aircraft and new routes.

 Here are some of my predictions for routes that Delta might add in the coming future:
St. Louis, Missouri - Southwest has been doing very well on this route and has no competition
Louisville, Kentucky - the airport has been eyeing service to Boston
Memphis, Tennesse - former Delta hub that has also been eyeing flights to Boston
San Diego, California - both Alaska Airlines and JetBlue have been doing very well on this flight
San Antonio, Texas - the airport has been eyeing flights to Boston
Either Houston or Dallas, Texas - to add compete against American and United / large business market
Denver, Colorado - to compete against United's hub there / large business market
Athens, Greece - there is a fairly large Greek diaspora in Boston, with some feed this route may work out well seasonally
Prague, Czechia - with some feed from other flights and tourism demand as well as connecting options on Skyteam partner Czech Airlines, this flight might work seasonally

Source: www.routesonline.com
             www.airliners.net

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