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Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1930 until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles via St. Louis, Kansas City, and other stops, with Ford Trimotors.
In February 1940, Delta Employees Credit Union was formed in Atlanta, Georgia, by eight Delta Air Lines employees, each with a stake of $45 in share capital. On March 8, 1940, Delta Employees Credit Union received a charter entitling it to 20 years of operation. One month later, the first board of directors was composed.
On 11 December 2012, Delta Air Lines confirmed the purchase of Singapore Airlines' 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic for £224 million, with plans to develop a transatlantic joint venture. Regulatory approval from the United States and European Union was granted on 20 June 2013, [ 77 ] and the purchase was completed on 24 June. [ 78 ]
Delta Air Lines retired fleet; Aircraft Total Introduced Retired Replacement Notes Airbus A310-200 [56] [57] 9 1991 1995 Boeing 767-300ER [58] Airbus A310-300: 23 1996 Boeing 727-100: 8 1972 1977 Boeing 727-200: Former Northeast Airlines fleet. [59] Boeing 727-200: 183 2003 Boeing 737-800 Boeing 757-200 McDonnell Douglas MD-90: One crashed as ...
A Frontier Boeing 737-300 in the original 1994 livery. Frontier retired its last 737 in 2005.. Frontier Airlines was created by Frederick W. "Rick" Brown (a United Airlines pilot), his wife Janice Brown, and Bob Schulman, the latter two having worked at the original Frontier Airlines (1950–1986). [21]
In 1988, Phil Bakes, the president of Eastern Air Lines, announced plans to lay off 4,000 employees and eliminate and reduce service to airports in the Western United States; he said that the airline was going "back to our roots" in the East. At the time, Eastern was the largest corporate employer in the Miami area and remained so after the cuts.
Northwest Airlines (often abbreviated as NWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1926 until it merged with Delta Air Lines in 2010. [1] The merger made Delta the largest airline in the world until the American Airlines–US Airways merger in 2013.
Employees: 48,475 (March 2023) ... In 2016, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, ... Qatar Airways retired its last Airbus A340-600 from service after around 16 years ...