Now, the Atlanta-based SkyTeam Alliance carrier is warning staff that Delta flights to Europe footprint are going to be dramatically smaller when it comes out of the crisis. This includes permanently ending service to some cities in Europe — a continent where it's the most important U.S. carrier — TPG has learned.
“Our international network has been set back to where we were over 30 years ago, almost like international flying within the late 1980s/early 1990s when cheap Delta flights to Europe and Northwest each averaged only 30 international destinations,” Delta senior vice chairman of in-flight service Allison Ausband said in an indoor message to flight attendants on Thursday viewed by TPG.