United Airlines invades Delta’s backyard with Atlanta cargo route

Plastic wrapped pallets of cargo loaded in side door of white United jet, with blue tail.

United Airlines (NASDQ: UAL) has launched its first widebody passenger freighter service to Atlanta and Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the busiest passenger airport in the world and home turf for rival Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL).

United Cargo’s schedule for January, updated last week, shows three weekly “ghost” flights — no passengers — from Frankfurt, Germany, to Atlanta with Boeing 787 aircraft. 

United has never offered the Frankfurt-Atlanta route pairing before, even as a...

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