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Delta Air Lines has updated its schedule and when its flight from New York John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) returns in March, it will no longer be a daytime flight. Its departure time shifts from 8:30 AM to 8:30 PM.
Flight DL266 was unique in that it was the only flight from the United States to Paris with a daytime departure. There are lots of flights to London Heathrow Airport (LHR) that depart between 7:35 AM and 9:35 AM on American Airlines, British Airways, JetBlue, United Airlines, and Virgin Atlantic from Boston Logan International Airport (BOS), Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), and New York John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK), but no other flights connect the US and Europe without the impact of jetlag from a morning arrival.
It seems that Delta has found a better way to utilize the Boeing 767 aircraft, which was sitting parked overnight at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG). If you want to catch this flight in its current time slot, you can fly it until October 26th.
Delta released a statement to The Points Guy that reads:
We will resume our third JFK-CDG frequency as an evening service beginning March 29, 2025.”
Anthony’s Take: I’ve flown the daytime United flight to London several times and loved arriving in time for dinner and then getting a good night’s sleep before proceeding to meetings or sightseeing. I wish more airlines offered daytime transatlantic flights to Europe.
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Another indication of the dying business travel market, especially for the finance and legal market that used to sustain these New York-London flights to avoid going straight from the plane and into meetings and allowing an evening to get back into shape.
I’m a little surprised that Delta doesn’t run a daytime flight on the NYLON route.
“shifts from an 8:30 AM departure to the evening” to…. when?
Updated. 8:30 PM