Accra is one of the airline's most popular African destinations, particularly during holidays, he says. The carrier operated Atlanta Ackla Flight over a decade ago, but was stopped in 2012 after high fuel costs.
Delta first launched in Africa in 2006, but now holds non-stop flights to five cities across the continent for a year, with 31 flights per week.
The company's African business is warriored by the transatlantic presence (providing over 700 flights per week to Europe this summer), but the African continent is one of the places airlines want to grow.
Transatlantics currently account for more than half of the world's international travel, but “the future is really the rest of the world,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian said last month.
The new Atlanta Marrakech flights will run three times a week on the Boeing 767-400ER. Seasonal flights at Atlanta Ackla run daily on the Airbus A330-900NEO during holidays.
The news is the latest in reboots and additions to African routes by airlines since the Covid-19 pandemic.
It added its first flight to Cape Town, South Africa in 2022, and rebooted its flight to Lagos, Nigeria in December.
