Delta Adds Direct Flights from New York to Orange County, California

There will soon be direct flights from New York's JFK airport to Orange County, California.

Delta Air Lines has announced it will begin offering nonstop service between the two locations starting October 15.

The new flight represents the only nonstop from New York to John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California, which is about an hour south of Los Angeles.

Creating yet another link between Southern California and the Big Apple, the new flight is part of Delta's increased West Coast service from JFK this summer, which also includes new San Jose offerings and increased San Diego and Seattle frequencies.

"Our customers have told us more flights to the West Coast are valuable to them and we're very excited to add this nonstop service to John Wayne Airport in Orange County, complementing up to 10 daily nonstop flights from JFK to Los Angeles," Chuck Imhof, Delta's vice president - New York & Eastern Division Sales, said in a statement. "This is another great addition on top of more flights coming for our New York customers this fall."

The JFK to Orange County route will operate six times weekly, every day except Saturday and will be flown on Boeing 737-700 aircraft with seating for 12 in First Class, 18 in Delta Comfort+ and 94 in the main cabin.

The flights will offer complimentary Delta Studio, which includes 1,000 hours of on-demand in-flight entertainment on individual seatback screens or streamed directly to a laptop, tablet or mobile. There will also be free live satellite TV as well as free mobile messaging via iMessage, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, and optional access to Wi-Fi throughout the aircraft.

Additional noteworthy developments tied to Delta's expanded service at JFK include:

- New daily service to San Jose, California beginning June 8; more daily frequencies beginning this summer and fall to Nashville, Tennessee; Charleston, South Carolina; Delta's Detroit Hub; Dallas/Ft. Worth; Indianapolis; Norfolk, Virginia and Seattle

- New year-round service to Burlington, Vermont (as of March) and Portland, Maine (as of September)

- New international service to Lagos, Nigeria three times weekly that began in April

- New seasonal service to the Azores (Ponta Delgada)

- Expanded year-round service to Lisbon, Portugal from previous seasonal service

- Return of seasonal service to Glasgow and Edinburgh, U.K. as well as Berlin, Germany

- New nonstop Caribbean service this December to Kingston, Jamaica and Port-au-Prince, Haiti

At Delta's New York-LaGuardia airport Delta has added new daily service beginning July 9 to Chattanooga, Tennessee and additional frequencies this summer and fall to Des Moines, Iowa; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Greensboro, North Carolina; Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina; Memphis, Tennessee; Madison, Wisconsin; Omaha, Nebraska; Chicago O'Hare and Knoxville, Tennessee.

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