delta to beef up asia service from seattle
delta air lines wants to expand service to asia through its partnership with alaska airlines. delta plans to add a flight between seattle and shanghai starting on june 17, 2013. delta, which is based in atlanta, is also proposing a flight between seattle andtokyo-haneda, japan, set to begin in march. by next summer, delta plans to operate more than 40 daily flights to 15 destinations from seattle. the city is the home base of alaska airlines’ parent company alaska air group inc. the partnership with alaska allow delta to offer connecting service from seattle to many other u.s. cities across both airlines’ networks.