25 Facts About Delta Airlines

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The airline, 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.

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2.

Delta Airlines is a founding member of the SkyTeam airline alliance.

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3.

Delta Airlines has nine hubs, with Atlanta being its largest in terms of total passengers and number of departures.

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4.

Passenger service ceased in October 1930 when the airmail contract for the route Delta Airlines had pioneered was awarded to another airline, which purchased the assets of Delta Airlines Air Service.

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5.

Delta Airlines moved its headquarters from Monroe, Louisiana, to its current location in Atlanta in 1941.

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6.

In 1965, Delta Airlines was the first airline to fly the McDonnell Douglas DC-9.

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7.

In 1990, Delta Airlines was the first airline in the United States to fly McDonnell Douglas MD-11 jets.

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8.

In 1997, Delta Airlines was the first airline to board more than 100 million passengers in a calendar year.

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9.

Also that year, Delta Airlines began an expansion of its international routes into Latin America.

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10.

Delta Airlines is the only US carrier that flies to Dakar, Stockholm, and Copenhagen.

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11.

Delta Airlines operates the largest Boeing 717, Boeing 757, and Boeing 767 fleets in the world, and the largest Airbus A330 fleet of any US airline.

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12.

Delta Airlines often seeks to acquire and utilize older aircraft, especially narrow-bodies, and it has created an extensive MRO organization, called TechOps, to support them.

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13.

Delta Airlines introduced it on its new Airbus A350, first delivered in fall 2017, to be followed by the now-retired Boeing 777.

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14.

In October 2018, Delta Airlines announced that it would be selling first class seats on domestically configured Boeing 757 aircraft flying transatlantic routes as Premium Select.

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15.

Delta Airlines operated a different buy on board program between 2003 and 2005.

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Delta Airlines ended this buy on board program in 2005; instead, Delta Airlines began offering snacks at no extra charge on flights over 90 minutes to most US domestic flights and some flights to the Caribbean and Latin America.

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17.

Delta Airlines was appointed on October 1,2014, replacing Mike Campbell.

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18.

Not counting the pilots and flight dispatchers, Delta is the only one of the five largest airlines in the United States, and one of only two in the top 9, whose non-pilot USA domestic staff is entirely non-union.

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19.

In January 2021, Delta Airlines said that, thanks to the federal support, it will be able to bring back 400 pilots in full time.

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20.

Delta Airlines Global Staffing was a temporary employment firm located in Atlanta, Georgia.

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21.

Delta Airlines Global Staffing was a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Airlines Air Lines, Inc and a division of the internal company DAL Global Services.

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22.

The crop dusting division of Delta Airlines remained headquartered in Monroe until Delta Airlines ceased crop dusting in 1966.

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23.

Delta Airlines maintains a large presence in the Twin Cities, with over 12,000 employees in the region as well as significant corporate support functions housed in the Minneapolis area, including the company's information technology divisional offices.

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24.

Delta Airlines introduced its current livery in 2007 as part of a re-branding after it emerged from bankruptcy.

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25.

Delta Airlines had considered several styles for its current safety video, including animation, before opting for a video presenting a flight attendant speaking to the audience.

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