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The first computerized booking system was the little-known Trans-Canada Air Lines (today's Air Canada) system, ReserVec developed by Ferranti Canada. It started to be delivered in April 1961 and by January 24, 1963 completed the airline switch-over from the manual systems.
Pan Am launched its PANAMAC system in 1964. Delta Air Lines launched the Delta Automated Travel Account System (DATAS) in 1968. United Airlines and Trans World Airlines followed in 1971 with the Apollo Reservation System and Programmed Airline Reservation System (PARS), respectively. Soon, travel agents began pushing for a system that could ...
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Along with many other major and regional US airlines, the PARS system was later used by TWA and Northwest Airlines. [2] In this context PARS was also used as a marketing name by TWA when selling their system to travel agencies. Swiss International Air Lines and Brussels Airlines discontinued using PARS beginning of 2016.
The following year, in September, Northwest Airlines Cargo joined the cargo alliance, a move which came one year after Northwest Airlines joined SkyTeam. However, on 14 April 2008, Northwest merged with Delta Air Lines, which led to the largest airline in the world. China Southern Airlines joined the cargo alliance by November 2010.
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.
Air freight rates rose as a consequence, from $0.80 per kg for transatlantic cargoes to $2.50-4 per kg, enticing passenger airlines to operate cargo-only flights through the use of preighters, while cargo airlines bring back into service fuel-guzzling stored aircraft, helped by falling oil prices.
In 1955, Delta Air Lines pioneered the hub-and-spoke system at its hub in Atlanta, Georgia, [3] in an effort to compete with Eastern Air Lines. In the mid-1970s FedEx adopted the hub-and-spoke model for overnight package delivery. After the airline industry was deregulated in 1978, several other airlines adopted Delta's hub-and-spoke paradigm.