16.6 million passengers: Delta Air Lines reports March operating performance

Delta Air Lines today reported operating performance for March 2018. The company carried 16.6 million passengers across its broad global network, a record for the month of March.

Monthly highlights include:

• Receiving final approvals to launch a joint venture with Korean Air that will offer customers world-class travel benefits across one of the most comprehensive route networks in the trans-Pacific market, including a combined network of more than 290 destinations in the Americas and more than 80 in Asia.

• Announcing new developments in customer experience innovation with biometric check-in at Delta Sky Clubs and a new Delta Sky Club at Phoenix Sky Harbor coming in late 2018.

• Establishing new connections for customers via Salt Lake City to Cleveland and El Paso, Texas; Chattanooga to New York-LGA; and Boston to Las Vegas, achieving a milestone of 50 nonstop destinations at Boston Logan by this fall.