Delta Air Lines’ Longest Boeing 757-200 Flight Between Atlanta & Anchorage Resumes This Month

It’s back. Delta Air Lines is preparing to return its Summer seasonal service between Atlanta and Anchorage, Alaska. The carrier, the only airline to fly the route, will utilize its Boeing 757-200 on the more than seven-hour journey.

The service is set to resume at the end of the month and will be Delta’s longest 757-200 route. From June to August, the carrier will offer more than 35,500 seats between the two destinations.

Flight details

According to aviation data and analytics firm Cirium, the US legacy carrier has scheduled the service to return on May 23rd and will run until September 8th. Flights will be operated daily between its hub at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) and Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC), totaling 18 flights this month – nine in each direction.

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The service will share the same flight number, regardless of the destination. Delta will likely schedule the same 757-200 to operate the return flight back to ATL, as it is scheduled to depart about an hour and a half after it arrives at ANC.

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The “75G”

Across the 18 flights scheduled this month, Delta will offer a total of 3,474 seats and 11,867,184 available seat miles (ASMs) on the route. Each flight will accommodate 193 passengers, suggesting that Delta will use its “75G” version of its 757-200. This specific configuration is the second largest version of its five 757-200 configurations (75D, 75G, 75H, 75S, 75C). In a two-class layout, the aircraft seats 20 passengers in first class and 173 passengers in the main cabin. 41 main cabin seats are Delta Comfort+ seats with additional legroom.

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With daily frequencies, Delta will operate 60 flights in June with 11,580 seats. July and August have the same capacity, with 62 flights and 11,966 seats each month. As the airline will wind down the service in September, it has 16 flights scheduled, offering 3,088 seats before going on hiatus on September 9th.

Delta’s other long 757-200 routes

At 3,416 average miles, ATL-ANC will be the longest route for Delta’s 757-200 series. Its second-longest route is another summer seasonal service between its hub at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport (MSP) to Keflavík International Airport (KEF) near Reykjavík, Iceland, stretching 2,944 average miles.

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The four remaining routes that exceed 2,500 miles on the aircraft involve Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, San José, Costa Rica, and San Francisco.

Delta is the largest operator of the 757-200, with 111 examples in total. Despite deploying the aircraft type on lengthy routes this summer, it does not hold the record for operating the world’s longest 757-200 flight. United Airlines beats out the carrier with its transatlantic service, crossing over 3,900 miles between Newark, New Jersey, and Stockholm, Sweden.

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