Eclipse News: Delta offering flight along Path of Totality on 04/08/24 for Solar Eclipse Viewing

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North America will experience its last total solar eclipse for 20 years in April, and now some skywatchers will have a front-row view.

Delta Airlines announced its chartering a flight from Austin, Texas, to Detroit on April 8 that is specifically intended for passengers to have an up-close view of the solar eclipse along the path of totality -- the specific locations on Earth that fall in the center of the moon's shadow during an eclipse.

The flight is scheduled to depart from Austin at 12:15 p.m. CT and arrive in Detroit at 4:20 p.m. ET. It's timed "to give those on board the best chance of safely viewing the solar eclipse at its peak," Delta said in a press release on Monday. The one-way flight is $1,129 and can be purchased through the Delta website.

"The April 8 eclipse is the last total eclipse we'll see over North America until 2044," Warren Weston, Delta Air Lines lead meteorologist, said in the press release. "This eclipse will last more than twice as long as the one that occurred in 2017, and the path is nearly twice as wide."

Delta says passengers will have "premium viewing" due to the A200-300 aircraft's extra-large windows.

In the U.S., the path of totality begins in Texas and will travel through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Small parts of Tennessee and Michigan will also experience the total solar eclipse, according to NASA.

Passengers aboard preexisting flights on April 8 will also have the chance to view the total solar eclipse, and Delta encourages those individuals to come prepared with solar eclipse viewing glasses.

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