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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 ...
AAdvantage is the frequent-flyer program of American Airlines. Launched May 1, 1981, it was the second such loyalty program in the world (after the first at Texas International Airlines in 1979) and remains the largest, with more than 115 million members as of April, 2021. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Miles accumulated in the program allow members to redeem ...
Robert Crandall. Robert Lloyd "Bob" Crandall (born December 6, 1935, in Westerly, Rhode Island) is an American businessman who is the former president and chairman of American Airlines. Called an industry legend by airline industry observers, Crandall has been the subject of several books and is a member of the Hall of Honor of the Conrad ...
The problems at Delta are similar to the problems that occurred at Southwest Airlines over the end-of-year holiday travel period in 2022 when it had to cancel nearly 17,000 flights over the course ...
For the first time since Friday’s CrowdStrike outage, Delta Air Lines’ operations seem to be more or less normal. By noon ET on Wednesday, the airline posted just 47 cancellations and 399 ...
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's cabin crews are nonunion; they got 5% pay raises in April. Flight attendants at American Airlines voted Thursday to ratify a new contract, ending a long dispute that got the attention of ...
The company name officially became Delta Air Lines in 1945. [26] In 1946, the company commenced regularly scheduled freight transport. In 1949, the company launched the first discounted fares between Chicago and Miami. In 1953, the company launched its first international routes after the acquisition of Chicago and Southern Air Lines. [27]