Delta Expands Corporate Priority Program to Include LATAM
The benefits program will be expanded to LATAM flights this month
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Delta Air Lines is expanding its Corporate Priority benefits scheme to include its partner carrier, LATAM Airlines, which will result in added perks for business travelers flying between the U.S. and Latin America.
Beginning this month, business travelers flying on Delta and LATAM flights between North and South America will be offered a range of exclusive benefits designed to cement Delta’s position as the go-to provider of corporate air travel.
LATAM Lounge, Santiago. / Photo: Courtesy of Aryeh Kornfeld
Under the terms of the Global Corporate Priority program, corporate travelers can enjoy priority boarding and prioritization when it comes to denied boarding. For example, business travelers will be exempt from involuntary denied boarding situations if a flight is fully booked and every ticketed passenger can not be accommodated.
They will also get priority over non-business travelers in situations where passengers need to be downgraded from their cabin class due to overbooking. Finally, corporate travelers will receive priority service over other passengers when their flights or seats must be rebooked.
Photo: Boeing 767-300ER. Delta One. Courtesy of Delta
“We are thrilled to extend our Global Corporate Priority benefits to LATAM Airlines, offering our corporate customers even more value and convenience,” said Luciano Macagno, Managing Director for Latin America, the Caribbean, and South Florida at Delta Air Lines.
“This expansion is a testament to our commitment to providing superior service and benefits to our business travelers, ensuring they receive the best possible travel experience.”
Delta’s Corporate Priority benefits program was launched in 2014, and it became the first U.S. airline to align its benefits for partner airline passengers when it incorporated Air France-KLM into the scheme in 2018. It expanded the program further in 2018 by adding Aeromexico and Virgin Atlantic.
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LATAM, the latest of Delta’s global partners to join the program, began its partnership with the Atlanta-based airline in 2019, with the Delta-LATAM Joint Venture launched in 2022.
Together, the JV represents the largest airline partnership between North and South America, providing passengers with joint accumulation of frequent flyer points and seamless connections to over 300 destinations via Delta’s hubs of Atlanta (ATL), Miami (MIA), New York (JFK), Los Angeles (LAX), and LATAM’s hubs of Bogota (BOG), Lima (LIM), Santiago (SCL), and Sao Paulo (GRU).
