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Subleased to Delta Air Lines in mid-2013 and remain in service there. [1] [2] American Airlines United States: 29 Taken over from Trans World Airlines and sold to AirTran Airways: Bangkok Airways Thailand: 3 Blue1 Finland: 9 Phased out in 2015; sold to Volotea and Delta Air Lines [4] Germanwings Germany: 2 Leased from Aerolíneas de Baleares ...
Since 2013, Delta has been working to reduce the age of its fleet by purchasing or leasing newly built aircraft or newer model used aircraft. [citation needed] Since launching the effort, Delta has preferred to purchase aircraft from Airbus, a major change for the company which had been a loyal customer of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (which merged with Boeing in 1997).
However, Boeing decided to go forward with the design under a new name, Boeing 717. [20] While it appeared that Boeing had skipped the 717 model designation when the 720 and the 727 followed the 707, the 717 name was the company's model number for the C-135 Stratolifter military transport and KC-135 Stratotanker tanker aircraft. 717 had also ...
The addition of 11 seats on each of the airline's 9 Boeing 717 aircraft would have reduced the airline's unit costs by increasing capacity 12.5%. Had the new seating configuration on the Boeing 717s been in effect in 2006, Midwest Airlines' cost per available seat mile excluding fuel of 7.22 cents would have been 6.77 cents, a 6.3% improvement.
A Delta Shuttle Boeing 727-200 at Washington National Airport. Delta Air Lines purchased Pan Am Shuttle (including several Boeing 727s) for $113 million, thereby securing Delta's position as the third largest U.S. airline. [4] Delta relaunched the service under the Delta Shuttle brand on September 1, 1991. [5]
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 ...
AirTran Airways was a low-cost airline in the United States that operated from 1993 until it was acquired by Southwest Airlines May 2, 2011.. Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, AirTran Airways was established in 1993 as Conquest Sun Airlines by the management of two small airlines, Destination Sun Airways and Conquest Airlines, with Conquest Airlines co-founder Victor Rivas being heavily ...
Boeing 717-200: 29 — 16 – 95 111 All were transferred to American Airlines and later retired in 2003. Boeing 757-200: 27 — – 22 158 180 All were transferred to American Airlines. Later sold to different airlines due to being powered by different engines. Most are still in service with Delta Air Lines. Boeing 767-300ER: 9 — 30 – 178 ...