Delta will launch its first flights to Marrakech late this year.
Three-times weekly service between Delta's home-base of Atlanta and the Moroccan city famed for its walled medina will launch Oct. 25. Delta will operate the route with a Boeing 767-400ER featuring business, premium economy and economy cabins.
Delta will become just the second airline flying nonstop between the U.S. and Marrakech, joining the winter seasonal flights from Newark that United launched in October.
Marrakech will be Delta's sixth African destination, along with Lagos, Nigeria; Accra, Ghana; Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa; and Dakar, Senegal.
Delta will also add a new seasonal route to Accra next winter. The three-times weekly flight from Atlanta will augment the carrier's year-round, daily service between New York JFK and Accra. Delta will operate Atlanta-Accra with an Airbus A330-900neo.
The lone other airline that connects Ghana and the U.S. is United, which flies between Washington Dulles and Accra, Cirium flight schedule data shows.