Lehigh Valley to be featured in Delta in-flight magazine

The next time you’re flying out on a business trip, you might just find a little bit of home in the seat pocket in front of you.

Delta Air Lines will be featuring the Lehigh Valley in this month’s edition of its in-flight magazine, Delta Sky Magazine, giving the region exposure to around 6 million of its passengers, about half of whom are leading business professionals.

There will be a 26-page special focus section in the December edition of Delta Sky, which just happens to be the busiest month of the year for flying.

The Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corp. pointed out that it’s quite an honor to be selected for such a feature.

“Only a handful of regions or cities are selected for this honor each year, with Lehigh Valley joining the ranks of such areas as Atlanta, St. Louis, Columbus, and Salt Lake City,” it stated in a release.

“It’s a major accomplishment for Lehigh Valley to be chosen for this feature in the most widely-read airline magazine in the country, an honor usually reserved for places that are household names,” said Don Cunningham, president & CEO of the LVEDC. “This clearly shows the Lehigh Valley is being recognized as one of the leading metropolitan areas of the United States. For a long time, we haven’t received the recognition we’ve deserved, but that is changing.”

The magazine feature was unveiled for the first time during a Dec. 3 launch party at Lehigh Valley International Airport.

Lehigh Valley was previously featured in a similar way by American Airlines. The region was the focus of a 24-page feature in American Way, the airline’s in-flight magazine. A PDF of that feature, called Spotlight Lehigh Valley, can be viewed here.