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On February 3, 2016, Delta Air Lines announced Anderson would retire as CEO effective May 2, 2016, and assume position as Executive Chairman of the Delta Air Lines board of directors. [8] On October 11, 2016, Anderson announced his retirement from the Board of Directors effective on the same day.
Fleet overview. Delta operates the 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. [7][8][9][10] Alongside United Airlines, it is one of only two airlines operating the Boeing 767-400ER. Delta primarily uses narrow-body aircraft ...
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 ...
Delta Air Lines is a major airline in the United States headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. [1] It is the United States' oldest operating airline and the seventh-oldest operating worldwide . [ 7 ] Delta, along with its subsidiaries and regional affiliates, including Delta Connection , operates over 5,400 flights daily and serves 325 destinations ...
Gerald Grinstein. Gerald ("Jerry") Grinstein (born 1932) is an American businessman, the former chief executive officer (CEO) of Delta Air Lines. He was CEO of Burlington Northern Railroad from 1985 to 1995, and joined Delta's board of directors in 1987. He became CEO of Delta in 2004, a time of financial crisis for the airline.
November 10, 1946: Delta Air Lines Flight 10, a Douglas DC-3 which departed Jackson, Mississippi attempting to land at then Meridian Key Field (MEI) in a thunderstorm and winds, had a runway excursion after landing, going beyond the end of the runway and up the western slope of a ditch adjoining the highway adjacent to the airport, bouncing over a highway, and coming to rest with the nose ...
Bastian left Delta in 2005 to become senior vice president and chief financial officer at Acuity Brands. Six months later, at the request of then-Delta CEO Gerald Grinstein, he returned to the airline to serve as chief financial officer. [7] In 2007, he was appointed to president, a position he held until assuming the role of CEO in May 2016. [8]
Leo F. Mullin (born 1943) is an American executive and civic activist who was CEO and Chairman of Delta Air Lines (1997-2004). He led Delta during one of the most tumultuous periods in aviation history, beginning in 1997, just as airlines were struggling to emerge from the economic crises of the early 1990s.