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This will be Austin's first nonstop service to Paris, and its fourth route to Europe with British Airways, KLM and Lufthansa already offering year-round service.
Delta has announced a new, daily, seasonal route between Austin and Paris Charles de Gaulle which will launch next year in time for the northern hemisphere summer season.
This will be Austin’s first nonstop service to Paris, and its fourth route to Europe with British Airways, KLM and Lufthansa already offering year-round service.
The route news
Delta hasn’t yet officially published the schedule for this route and we can’t see it in ExpertFlyer, but based on data published by CBS Austin and Simple Flying, this is what we think the schedule and flight numbers will look like at launch (27 March 2027):
DL100 AUS 15:15 – 08:15+1 day CDG (Daily)
DL99 CDG 10:10 – 14:20 AUS (Daily)
The route will be operated by an A330-900neo.
Technically, the summer season runs into the final week in October, but airlines sometimes play fast and loose with the terminology, so it will be interesting to see if this route will genuinely operate for that long or if it will be cut earlier. I guess we’ll find out when the flights go on sale (possibly this weekend).
Delta also says that through its joint venture with Air France-KLM and Virgin Atlantic, Delta, Air France and KLM will together operate up to 10 weekly nonstop flights between Austin and Europe at peak summer, split between Paris Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam. From Paris, Delta points to onward Air France connections to “nearly 70 destinations across Europe, India and Africa”.
Separately, Delta says that by summer 2027 it expects to serve around 30 destinations from Austin with more than 70 peak-day departures.
Airbus A330-900neo
The route will be operated by the Airbus A330-900neo, which offers the following four cabins:
- Delta One – 29 seats
- Delta Premium Select – 28 seats
- Delta Comfort – 56 seats
- Delta Main – 168 seats
The Delta One cabin offers the usual Delta suite (Thompson Vantage seats) set out in a 1-2-1 layout giving all passengers direct access to one of the aircraft’s two aisles.
The Premium Select cabin is set out in a 2-3-2 layout (good for couples) and offer seats with 18.5″ of width (not great, but not bad either) and 38″ of pitch (legroom).
The Economy Class cabin is split between the Delta Comfort seats which offer 34″ of legroom (good), and the regular Economy Class seats which offer 32″ of legroom (good for the cheapest seats on a modern-day transatlantic flight).
All seats in the Economy Class cabin are 18″ wide and that, combined with the legroom figures, make this one of the better aircraft in which to cross the Atlantic if you’re flying in the rearmost cabin.
Thoughts
This information pulled by Aviation Week explains the reasoning behind this route:
“Sabre Market Intelligence data shows that approximately 51,100 two-way passengers traveled between Austin and Paris in 2025.
Paris was Austin’s second-largest European city market behind London, which generated about 181,700 passengers, and was larger than the existing nonstop markets of Amsterdam and Frankfurt, at approximately 47,000 and 26,800 passengers, respectively.”
So the 50,000+ yearly passengers is what’s being targeted here, and I suspect (I don’t know) that most of the traffic on this route is either point to point or Americans heading to Europe via Paris rather than Europeans heading to the US.
That’s probably just as well as while Paris is a huge hub for Air France and SkyTeam (so there will be plenty of options to connect on to somewhere else in Europe), Austin is very definitely not a major hub for Delta.
Yes, Delta tells us that by next summer, it will link Austin with 30 cities (presumably that includes Paris), but a lot of those routes include cities that already have nonstop service to/from Europe, they include cities that no one will be routing to via Austin (e.g. Miami, JFK, Minneapolis, Atlanta, etc…), and they include cities that most Europeans have never heard of (e.g. Destin, Bozeman, Asheville, Kalispell, etc..), so I don’t see Europeans using the Paris – Austin route as an important way to connect to somewhere else in the United States.
Bottom line
From 27 March 2027, Delta will operate a daily summer season service between Austin and Paris Charles de Gaulle using an Airbus A330-900neo offering Delta One, Delta Premium Select, Delta Comfort and Delta Main.
It’s Austin’s first nonstop link to Paris and given Delta’s partnership with Air France-KLM, it opens another route to most major European cities from Central Texas.
