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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.
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.
The company began doing business as Delta Air Lines, carrying mail from Fort Worth to Charleston, South Carolina. The company's name was officially changed in 1945. 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.
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.
Airline Destinations Ref; United Airlines: 431 American Airlines: 352 Delta Air Lines: 290 SkyWest Airlines: 244 Air Canada: 192 Allegiant Air: 128 Alaska Airlines: 119 Southwest Airlines: 111 Frontier Airlines: 110 WestJet: 105 JetBlue: 104 Spirit Airlines: 91 Aeromexico: 78 Volaris: 66 Air Transat: 64
Airline operators. There were 578 A350 aircraft in service with 44 operators as of December 24, 2023. The largest operators are Singapore Airlines (63), Qatar Airways (53), Cathay Pacific (42), Delta Air Lines (30), Air China (27), Thai Airways International (22) and Lufthansa (21).
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 .
Survivors. 78. Delta Air Lines Flight 1989 was a regularly scheduled flight offering nonstop morning service on September 11, 2001, from Logan International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport on a Boeing 767-300ER aircraft. This flight was one of several flights considered as possibly hijacked, but landed safely at Cleveland Hopkins ...