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Website. www.nwa.com. Northwest Airlines Corp. (often abbreviated as NWA) was a major airline in the United States 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. [2] [3]
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.
Bastian left Delta in 2005 to become senior vice president and chief financial officer at Acuity Brands. Six months later, at the request of then-Delta CEO Gerald Grinstein, he returned to the airline to serve as chief financial officer. In 2007, he was appointed to president, a position he held until assuming the role of CEO in May 2016.
The Boeing 777 fleet retirement plan is a move toward Delta's (DAL) financial goal to reduce cash burn rate to zero by 2020-end. Delta Plans Retirement of Boeing 777 Fleet Amid Coronavirus Woes ...
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.
The following is a list of current commercial operators of the Boeing 767, and any of its variants.As of 2020, there were 764 Boeing 767 aircraft in service, comprising 68 767-200s, 655 767-300s and 37 767-400ERs, as listed by variant in the following table.
Airline Country Photo Status Notes Ref 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.
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 ...