Dallas Fort Price Worldwide Airport (DFW) is about to land one more new Oneworld alliance airline.
Royal Jordanian introduced on Wednesday that it’s going to start nonstop service from DFW to Queen Alia Worldwide Airport (AMM) in Amman, Jordan, beginning Might 10, 2026. This marks the primary time that vacationers primarily based in Texas will have the ability to fly nonstop to Jordan, and it will additionally turn out to be Royal Jordanian’s longest route.
At 7,036 miles, this new service surpasses the earlier longest route for Royal Jordanian, which sat at 6,236 miles to Chicago, in accordance with Cirium timetables.
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The Jordanian flag service will function the route 4 occasions per week on a year-round foundation. Flights will likely be operated by a 270-seat Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, that includes 24 business-class seats and 246 economic system seats. Notice that business-class pods are organized in a 2-2-2 configuration, making this one of many much less interesting transatlantic configurations at present flying.
Eastbound flights will depart DFW at 10:55 p.m. and land the next night at 8 p.m. The westbound service can even function as a daytime flight, leaving AMM at 10:40 a.m. and touchdown at DFW at 5:05 p.m.
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Flights are timed to optimize for connections in Amman to greater than 50 locations across the Center East and past.
Notably, this new route will mark Royal Jordanian’s fifth U.S. gateway after Chicago, Detroit, New York and the just lately launched Washington, D.C., route.
DFW, which is the biggest hub for hometown service American Airways, has been working to develop its long-haul portfolio lately, particularly amongst Oneworld alliance airways that would bolster their presence with connections to American’s home community.
Earlier this 12 months, Cathay Pacific launched flights to DFW, becoming a member of different just lately launched routes to DFW on Fiji Airways, Qantas and others lately.
“Welcoming Royal Jordanian to DFW is one other thrilling step in rising our world community,” Chris McLaughlin, DFW’s CEO, mentioned in a press release. “This new nonstop connection to Amman is a primary for North Texas and can increase our attain into the Center East and additional develop DFW’s position as a key worldwide gateway.”
No saver award flights had been out there simply hours after the airline introduced the route, however that is prone to change — particularly for economic system redemptions — because the airline information extra discounted fares and optimizes its income administration algorithms for the brand new route.
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