Indianapolis has become the latest mid-size airport to land a non-stop route to Europe.

Delta Air Lines announced on Wednesday that it will begin flying non-stop from Indianapolis to Paris Charles de Gaulle, which is the largest hub for Delta partner Air France.

The service is a major victory for the Indianapolis airport, marking its first-ever regularly scheduled airline flight to a destination outside North America.

"Indiana and the Indianapolis metropolitan area has long been an important part of our route network and we are honored that Delta will be the first U.S. carrier to take Indiana nonstop to Europe," Bob Cortelyou, Delta's Senior Vice President – Network Planning, said in a statement.

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb struck a similar tone, calling the new route “a big win for the entire state,” according to the Indianapolis Star.

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Customers flying from Indianapolis will be able to connect to dozens of onward destinations on Air France.

"This new service is a great example of the strength of our trans-Atlantic joint venture and we look forward to providing a new economic link between the state of Indiana and Europe," Dwight James, Delta's Senior Vice President – trans-Atlantic, said in a statement.

Delta’s new Paris-Indianapolis flights will begin May 24. The carrier will fly the route with 225-seat Boeing 767 widebody jets, though it did not offer a precise schedule for the upcoming service. The Star says the route will operate “at least three times a week.” Tickets for the route go on sale Sept. 23.

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According to the Star, "taxpayers will help subsidize the flight. Holcomb is offering Delta up to $5.5 million in conditional incentives over two years. The incentives will be awarded based on the number of passengers served by the route, according to the Indiana Economic Development Corp."

The new Paris route will immediately become one of the highest-profile offerings from Indianapolis.

Prior to Thursday’s Paris announcement, the airport had only non-stop international flights to Toronto, and to Cancun in Mexico. In July, Southwest Airlines was the latest airline to add direct flights to Cancun.

With that, Indianapolis joins a number of other mid-size U.S. markets that have scored prestigious international routes recently.

Nashville and New Orleans each landed new British Airways’ routes to London during the past two years. Elsewhere in the Midwest, three other mid-size cities – Cleveland, Cincinnati and St. Louis – all landed new non-stop service to the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik. And three smaller cities in the Northeast landed nonstop service to several European destinations as fast-growing Norwegian Air adds flights from Newburgh, N.Y.; Providence and Hartford, Conn.

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