Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter . Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. Think you’re ready for the changes coming to air travel in 2025? No, you aren’t.
We are firmly charging into a new era of travel, led by innovations and explorations that seemed impossible or, at best, highly unlikely only a few years ago. New planes, new routes, new partnerships and new strategies are the name of the game for the year ahead ..
. not to mention that you’ll definitely be hearing more about Greenland than perhaps ever before. Now, nearly five years out from the devastation that Covid wreaked on the airline industry, optimism has returned.
With it comes full flights, yes, but 2025 is a steamroller of shifts that will further open up the world to travelers at the same time as charging them more for the privilege. These are the trends in air travel you need to know about for the year ahead. Brand-new routes connect the US and Europe like never before In September, Delta Air Lines proclaimed that 2025 would see a record summer for the airline, with the most transatlantic routes in its history.
At peak, the airline will operate 700 weekly flights across the ocean, to 33 European destinations. A few of these new routes include Atlanta to Brussels and Naples, Italy; Boston to Barcelona and Milan; Minneapolis to Copenhagen and Rome; New York-JFK to Catania, Sicily; and Detroit to Dublin. �.
