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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 991 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]
Delta Air Lines aircraft parked on a taxiway at Kansas City International Airport. As of December 2024, the Delta Air Lines fleet consists of 991 mainline aircraft, making it one of the two largest commercial airline fleets in the world, along with United Airlines. [61] [62] [63] Delta Air Lines operates a fleet manufactured by Airbus and Boeing.
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 (IATA: DL, ICAO: DAL, call sign: Delta) is a major U.S. airline headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
November 10, 1946: Delta Air Lines Flight 10, a Douglas DC-3 which departed Jackson, Mississippi attempting to land at then Meridian Key Field (MEI) in a thunderstorm and winds, had a runway excursion after landing, going beyond the end of the runway and up the western slope of a ditch adjoining the highway adjacent to the airport, bouncing over a highway, and coming to rest with the nose ...
Delta was an early beneficiary and by 1943 obtained CAB approval to expand its route system to Cincinnati, Ohio, to the north, Savannah to the east, and New Orleans, Louisiana, to the south. In the meantime, Delta upgraded its fleet to include Douglas DC-2s and DC-3s, and in 1940 added flight attendants to the flight crews. These aircraft ...
The company began doing business as Delta Air Lines, carrying mail from Fort Worth to Charleston, South Carolina. [9] [10] [3] The company's name was officially changed in 1945. [11] Through the 1950s and 1960s, Delta was the first airline to fly the Douglas DC-8, Convair 880, and McDonnell Douglas DC-9 aircraft. By 1970, it had an all-jet fleet.
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]