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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.
The history of Delta Air Lines began with the world's first aerial crop dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters, Inc. The company was founded on March 2, 1925, in Macon, Georgia, before moving to Monroe, Louisiana, in summer 1925. [13] It flew a Huff-Daland Duster, the first true crop duster, designed to combat the boll weevil infestation ...
Delta handed out 1.5 million trading cards in 2023, and is set to launch new designs later this year. Delta has been keeping a secret for the past 20 years—and pilots really want you to ask about it
A Northwest Airlines Airbus A330-300, shortly before the merger with Delta in 2008. Delta Air Lines as it exists today is the result of numerous mergers over its history. Predecessor carriers include: Chicago and Southern Air Lines (formed in 1933, merged into Delta in 1953).
Delta Air Lines United States: 80 Long-term lease from Southwest Airlines. To be retired by 2025 and replaced by Airbus A220. Hawaiian Airlines United States: 19 QantasLink Australia: 7 To be retired in July 2024 and replaced by Airbus A220-300.
Delta A220-300 landing at MSP with a Delta 757-200 taxiing in the foreground. In 2023, MSP was recognized by Cirium as the world's most on-time international airport, having an on-time departure rate of 84.44% and on-time arrival rate of 84.62%.
The following is a list of defunct airlines of the United States.However, some of these airlines have ceased operations completely, changed identities and/or FAA certificates and are still operating under a different name (e.g. America West Airlines changed to use the identity of US Airways in 2005 – which itself also changed identity to American Airlines in 2015).
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710 was a Boeing 737-200 flight between the California cities of Sacramento and Burbank, with a stop in San Francisco, that was hijacked by two Bulgarian nationals on July 5, 1972, shortly after take-off from Sacramento Airport. The hijackers demanded $800,000, two parachutes and to be taken to the Soviet Union ...