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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 983 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 983 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 Air Lines is the largest operator of the 717, flying over 70 percent of all in-service jets as of 2024. In 2013, Delta began leasing the entire fleet of 88 jets previously operated by AirTran Airways from Southwest Airlines , who had purchased AirTran, but wanted to preserve its all-Boeing 737 fleet rather than taking on another class of ...
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]
The type first flew on February 22, 1993, and the first MD-90 was delivered to Delta in February 1995. [22] No MD-90 orders were received after Boeing and McDonnell Douglas merged in 1997 due to internal competition with Boeing's 737. [23] Delta Air Lines had initially placed a large order for the MD-90 to replace some aging Boeing 727s.
This facility covered 9 acres, employed 1,600 individuals and provided service exclusively to Delta Air Lines’ fleet of 79 aircraft, including 9 jets. In May 1968, Delta TechOps completed its first expansion, increasing the total space by 7 acres and adding another 1,700 employees, more than doubling the size of the division’s workforce. [5]
On December 20, 1972, North Central Airlines Flight 575, DC-9-31 registration N954N, collided during its takeoff roll with Delta Air Lines Flight 954, a Convair CV-880 N8807E that was taxiing across the same runway at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. The DC-9 was destroyed, killing 10 and injuring 15 of the 45 people on board ...