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Posted: 3:09 PM- Delta Air Lines officially debuted daily trans-Atlantic service between Paris and Utah this afternoon when a jet carrying 223 passengers and crew touched down at Salt Lake City International Airport.
The Boeing 767-300 ER jet had 211 passengers aboard and only five open seats.
The flight from Charles de Gaulle International Airport marks the first trans-Atlantic service offered by any airline from Salt Lake to Europe and is the only nonstop service by a U.S. carrier between the western United States and Paris.
A return flight to Paris was scheduled to depart around 5 p.m.
