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Delta Air Lines is a major American airline. [1] [2] The company's history began with the world's first aerial crop dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters Inc., founded in 1925 in Macon, Georgia [3] to combat the boll weevil infestation of cotton crops. [4] C.E. Woolman, general manager and later Delta's first CEO, led a group of investors to acquire the company's assets. Delta Air ...
The idea for a museum about Delta Air Lines originated with group of retirees who started a campaign in 1990 to find one of Delta's original five purchased-new Douglas DC-3s from the early 1940s. After some searching, the employees found Delta Ship 41, Delta's second DC-3 to carry passengers, in Puerto Rico performing cargo services. The group bought the plane from the cargo airline and flew ...
Delta operates the world's largest fleets of the Airbus A220, Boeing 717, and Boeing 757, the largest passenger fleet of the Boeing 767, and the largest Airbus A330 fleet of any US airline. Delta has historically preferred purchasing or leasing used aircraft or using older-generation models to keep initial acquisition costs down.
Delta Airlines has apologized after baggage handlers were seen casually throwing the East Tennessee State University’s Men’s Golf Team’s golf club bags onto the concrete ground of the ...
Delta Air Lines is paying out $1.4 billion in profit sharing, more than double what it paid employees a year ago.
The US Airways Do Crew program was the airline's employee community-service program. Employee volunteers in the program participated in community-based projects on a monthly basis through local chapters in Boston, Charlotte, Las Vegas, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Livery
Bastian’s Valentine’s Day gift to employees–a bonus check worth $1.4 billion this year–is here to stay, too.
Thompson began his employment with Delta Air Lines in August 1980 as a Second Officer on the Boeing 727 aircraft. During his twenty-five-year tenure with Delta, he progressed through several positions and aircraft and retired as a Line Check Captain with an assignment to the Boeing 767-400 aircraft.