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Delta Air Lines is one of the major airlines of the United States and a legacy carrier headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The United States' oldest operating airline and the seventh-oldest operating worldwide, Delta along with its subsidiaries and regional affiliates, including Delta Connection, operates over 5,400 flights daily and serves 325 destinations in 52 countries on six continents.
The airport is located 10 miles (16 km; 8.7 nmi) south of the Downtown Atlanta district. It is named after former Atlanta mayors William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson. [4] [5] The airport covers 4,700 acres (1,900 ha) of land and has five parallel runways which are aligned in an east-west direction.
Delta added jet airliners to its fleet in the 1960s; the Douglas DC-8 entered service in September 1959. Delta's new red, white, and blue triangle logo (the "widget") on their aircraft represented the jet's swept wing, as well as the Greek letter delta. Convair 880s were added in 1960 (they set a coast-to-coast record) and in 1965 the DC-9 ...
Footage from inside a Delta aeroplane shows the moment it landed safely without its front landing gear at an airport in North Carolina on Wednesday, 28 June. In a statement, Delta said that flight ...
On Sunday 10 December, Delta flight 135 was carrying 270 passengers from Amsterdam to Detroit when it made an emergency landing at Goose Bay Airport in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and ...
Delta TechOps (Technical Operations) is the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) division of Delta Air Lines, headquartered at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. [1] With more than 9,600 employees and 51 maintenance stations worldwide, Delta TechOps is a full-service maintenance provider for the more than 900 ...
Two runways were closed for multiple hours after Flight 515, which departed from Atlanta, landed in L.A. at around 1 p.m. local time.
: 92 Delta captains who flew with Price described him as an "above average first officer" who possessed "excellent knowledge" of the TriStar.: 7 Price had logged 6,500 flight hours, including 1,200 in the TriStar.: 92 The flight engineer, Nicholas Nestor "Nick" Nassick, age 43, had been a Delta Air Lines employee since 1976. He had logged 6,500 ...