{"id":346846,"date":"2026-06-23T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346846\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:55:08","slug":"delta-air-lines-adds-bay-area-nonstop-flight-at-austin-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346846\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Air Lines adds Bay Area nonstop flight at Austin airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The airline announced plans to launch daily nonstop service between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/business\/transportation\/article\/austin-airport-faa-grant-concourse-b-22306028.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin-Bergstrom International Airport<\/a> and San Jos\u00e9 Mineta International Airport in California\u2019s Bay Area this fall. Service begins Oct. 6 and will operate year-round.<\/p>\n<p>The flights will operate on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delta.com\/us\/en\/aircraft\/airbus\/a319\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Delta\u2019s Airbus A319 aircraft<\/a>, which seats 132 passengers and feature Wi-Fi, in-seat power outlets and seatback video screens.<\/p>\n<p>The San Jos\u00e9 route is the second Bay Area destination from Austin for\u00a0the airline, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyaustin.com\/nonstop-flights-out-aus\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">already flies nonstop<\/a> to San Francisco International Airport. Delta\u2019s launch also brings competition to the route, which is currently served by Austin market leader Southwest Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest and United Airlines also fly nonstop to San Francisco, and Southwest additionally flies to Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>The new San\u00a0Jos\u00e9 flight opens up \u201ca direct link between two major tech hubs,\u201d Delta said in a news release. San Jos\u00e9 airport is located in the South Bay and is the closest commercial airport to Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta-based airline will also bolster service to Orlando, adding a third daily flight on the route.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s families heading to Orlando or business travelers moving between two innovation centers, Delta is giving Austin customers more ways to stay connected,\u201d the news release reads.<\/p>\n<p>Delta began year-round service to Columbus, Ohio, and Kansas City, Mo., and seasonal service to Asheville, N.C., Bozeman, Mont., and Kalispell, Mont. earlier this month. It will launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/business\/travel\/article\/delta-austin-phoenix-bozeman-flights-22088118.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">twice-daily service to Phoenix<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n<p>Austin is a focus city for the airline, which also opened a flight attendant base here in October.<\/p>\n<p>The growth comes amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/local\/article\/austin-airport-32-gates-21277693.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">largest expansion in the airport\u2019s history<\/a>, which will add a new concourse, 32 new gates and an expanded arrivals and departures hall by the early 2030s. Once renovations and additions are complete, Delta will anchor the existing concourse, controlling 15 gates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The airline announced plans to launch daily nonstop service between Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and San Jos\u00e9 Mineta International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-346846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}