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Delta Air Lines, operating in bankruptcy, originally said it planned to make a major announcement at a fancy lunch for the news media at the Rainbow Room last week in Manhattan. Delta's news was that it was adding 46 daily flights between cities in the Northeast and Kennedy International Airport in New York. The main thrust of Delta's move is to add connecting service, from Hartford and Philadelphia, to feed its growing international and domestic long-haul capacity out of Kennedy. Other big airlines, among them American, United, Northwest, Delta and Continental, quickly raised their fares by similar amounts. Delta Air Lines, operating in bankruptcy, originally said it planned to make a major announcement at a fancy lunch for the news media at the Rainbow Room last week in Manhattan. James F. Whitehurst, Delta's chief operating officer, said that the move was mostly intended to help us to continue to build our transcontinental and international service out of New York.