Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines is a US based airline company. Delta flies both domestic and international, servicing a large number of airports within the USA. It has the IATA call code DL.The company has its roots in Huff Daland Dusters, which was founded in 1924, and through a number of mergers and acquisitions became the company it is today.
Delta operates Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as its chief hub, as well as hubs in Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron, Kentucky, near Cincinnati, Ohio and Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Delta is based in Atlanta, Georgia, where it moved its headquarters in 1941.
Delta Air Lines currently employ more than 60000 people, and services 428 cities in 76 countries. Among the cities and places they serve: Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, various destinations in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, India, many European cities, Guarulhos International Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Narita, Japan's New Tokyo International Airport (nearby Tokyo, Japan)
Delta is part of the SkyTeam alliance, and codeshares with SNCF French Rail to rail stations in France.
On the morning of August 2, 1985, Delta Air Lines Flight 191, which was on a Fort Lauderdale-Dallas-Los Angeles route, crashed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, killing 133 of the 164 passengers on board. The crash would later become the subject of a television movie.
On August 31, 1988, Delta Air Lines Flight 1411, which was bound from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport near Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas to Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City, Utah, crashed after take off from Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. 2 of 7 crew members and 12 of the 101 passengers on board lost their lives.
If Operation Bojinka wasn't discovered after an apartment fire in Manila, Philippines, then the airline would have lost one MD-11 over the South China Sea flying a Seoul, South Korea-Taipei, Taiwan-Bangkok, Thailand route on January 21, 1995.
Delta Air Lines Fleet
| Type | Number |
| Boeing 737-200 | 52 |
| Boeing 737-300 | 26 |
| Boeing 737-800 | 71 |
| Boeing 757-200 | 121 |
| Boeing 767-200 | 15 |
| Boeing 767-300 | 28 |
| Boeing 767-300ER | 59 |
| Boeing 767-400ER | 21 |
| Boeing 777-200 | 8 |
| MD-11 | 14 |
| MD-88 | 120 |
| MD-90 (DC-9) | 16 |
| ATR-72 | 19 |
| CRJ-100/200 | 226 |
| CRJ-700 | 33 |
Other facts of interest
- Delta was named official airline to Disney World in 1985.
- Boxer
Felix Trinidad
was pictured aboard the cockpit of a Delta jetliner after it landed in San Juan,
upon return from his fight against Oscar
De La Hoya.