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Delta Air Lines aircraft parked on a taxiway at Kansas City International Airport. As of December 2024, the Delta Air Lines fleet consists of 986 mainline aircraft, making it one of the two largest commercial airline fleets in the world, along with United Airlines. [1] [2] [3] Delta Air Lines operates a fleet manufactured by Airbus and Boeing. [4]
Los Angeles (LAX): Delta's secondary hub for the West Coast. It offers service to cities in Latin America, Asia, Australia, Europe, and major domestic cities and West Coast regional destinations. Minneapolis/St. Paul (MSP): One of Delta's two Midwest hubs. It is the primary Canadian gateway for the airline and also serves many American ...
August 23, 1980, a Delta Air Lines L-1011 on a San Juan to Los Angeles flight was hijacked and flown to Cuba. [21] The hijacker was jailed by Cuban authorities, and all passengers were released unharmed. September 13, 1980: a Delta Air Lines Flight from New Orleans to Atlanta, was taken over by two hijackers and forced to fly to Cuba.
Ship Flag Sunk date Notes Coordinates Ada Hancock United States: 27 April 1863 A steam-powered tender suffered a boiler explosion in Los Angeles Harbor killing 26 of her 53 passengers. A common urban legend states that onboard was $125,000 in gold, transported by a Wells Fargo messenger, which was never recovered. [1]
Delta Connection is a brand name for Delta Air Lines, under which a number of individually owned regional airlines primarily operate short- and medium-haul routes. Mainline major air carriers often use regional airlines to operate services via code sharing agreements in order to increase frequencies in addition to serving routes that would not sustain larger aircraft as well as for other ...
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. The airline operates nine domestic hubs. [1] In the summer 2024 Delta operated 893 daily flights out of its Atlanta main hub. [2]
Pages in category "Ships built in Los Angeles" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 415 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Delta's entire active fleet is now composed of twinjets. The airline is now the world's largest operator of 767 aircraft. The Lockheed L-1011 was, for many years, the workhorse of the fleet and backbone of Delta's international network, numbering as high as 56 in service at one time. The last L-1011 (N728DA) was retired on July 31, 2001.