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The company began doing business as Delta Air Lines, carrying mail from Fort Worth to Charleston, South Carolina. [9] [10] [3] The company's name was officially changed in 1945. [11] Through the 1950s and 1960s, Delta was the first airline to fly the Douglas DC-8, Convair 880, and McDonnell Douglas DC-9 aircraft. By 1970, it had an all-jet fleet.
The airline was one of five US carriers – the others being Delta Air Lines, Continental Airlines, United Airlines and American Airlines — seeking approval to serve Haneda as part of the U.S.-Japan OpenSkies agreement. [39] Approval was granted from USDOT to begin nonstop service to Haneda, Japan. The flight began service on November 18 ...
Delta Air Lines is a major United States airline based in Atlanta, Georgia. As of December 31, 2021, Delta's mainline aircraft fly to 242 destinations, serving 52 countries across six continents. As of December 31, 2021, Delta's mainline aircraft fly to 242 destinations, serving 52 countries across six continents.
On the evening of Wednesday, August 2, 1972, at a hurried 10-minute news conference after the DC-8's completion of the 11,500 miles (18,500 km) trip in Atlanta, the captain said he realized the aircraft was being hijacked when he left the cockpit to go to the lavatory and noticed a man aiming a gun at a stewardess.
Delta Air Lines Flight 1086 was a scheduled Delta Air Lines domestic passenger flight between Atlanta and New York's LaGuardia Airport. On March 5, 2015, the McDonnell Douglas MD-88 aircraft veered off the runway shortly after landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York City .
On July 22, 1962, Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 301, a Bristol Britannia 314 crashed while it attempted a "go-around". 27 of the 40 passengers and crew on board were killed. Vickers Viscount N7410 of Aloha Airlines was damaged beyond repair when it collided on the ground with Douglas DC-9-31 N906H of Hawaiian Airlines on June 27, 1969. [120]
On September 14, 2005, Delta filed for bankruptcy and consequently had to reduce the number of gates it leased. [50] In December 2018, Delta announced an expansion of routes to take effect in 2019, which resulted in the airline regaining all of Terminal A (other than one gate subleased to WestJet, itself a codeshare airline with Delta). [51]