Delta Air Lines History Disasters Delta Air Lines Fleet

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Delta Air Lines' mainline division currently employs more than 60,000 people, and serves 138 cities in 34 countries, with an additional two cities in two countries slated for the future. Many more cities are served by the Delta Connection carriers, and by Delta's codeshare partners.

1 History

The company has its roots in Huff Daland Dusters, which was founded in 1924 in Macon, Georgia but moved to Monroe, Louisiana the following year. In 1928, Huff Daland Dusters was purchased and renamed 'Delta Air Services', where its route connected Dallas, Texas to Jackson, Mississippi, via Shreveport, Louisiana and Monroe. In 1941, Delta moved its headquarters from Monroe to Atlanta, Georgia, to center itself along its new route network that connected Chicago and New Orleans to Florida.

In the 1950s, Delta began flights from New Orleans to the Caribbean and Venezuela, becoming the number 2 U.S. carrier in the region after Pan Am and Braniff. By the early 1960s, Delta's route network stretched to the West Coast, and Dallas was emerging as its second hub city. Delta was the launch operator of both the DC-8 and DC-9 jets.

Delta purchased Northeast Airlines in 1972 to strengthen its market share in the northeastern United States. In 1978, Delta began flying from Atlanta to London with new Lockheed L-1011 TriStar aircraft: Frankfurt was added the following year.

Delta was named official airline to Walt Disney World in 1985. Their official ride in the Magic Kingdom was Delta Dreamflight. In 1987, Delta took over Western Airlines and absorbed its large hubs at Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. That year, Delta began flights from Portland, Oregon to Tokyo, Seoul, and Bangkok, its first transpacific routes.

Delta was the first airline to operate the MD-11 aircraft in 1990. Delta's most dramatic expansion came with its purchase of Pan American's European routes in 1991, shortly before Pan Am declared bankruptcy. The purchase gave Delta the largest transatlantic route network through most of the 1990s.

Delta was one of the airlines targeted in the failed Operation Bojinka plot: the conspirators planned to bomb a Delta MD-11 flying from Seoul to Bangkok via Taipei on January 21, 1995.

Delta operated its last MD-11 flight on January 1, 2004, Flight 56 departing New Tokyo International Airport (now Narita International Airport) at 4:45pm. The aircraft arrived in Atlanta at 3:20pm. This concluded MD-11 service in the fleet, with Delta having retired the other three-engined aircraft, the Boeing 727, in 2003. Its entire active fleet is now comprised of twinjets. Delta had 14 MD-11's at the time of the aircraft's retirement. On September 23, 2004, a Delta spokesperson confirmed plans to sell eight MD-11s to FedEx.

According to Aviation Daily, Delta is planning to retire their 737-200, 737-300, 767-200, and MD-90 fleet.

In 2004, in an effort to avoid bankruptcy, Delta announced a restructuring of the company that included job cuts as well as turnaround plans for expansion of Atlanta operations by some 100 new flights making it a 'super-hub' and requiring the airline to spread its flight schedule more evenly across the day.

1.1 Disasters

On the morning of August 2, 1985, Delta Air Lines Flight 191, on a Fort Lauderdale- Dallas- Los Angeles route, crashed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, killing 133 of the 164 passengers on board. The crash would later become the subject of a television movie.

On August 31, 1988, Delta Air Lines Flight 1411, bound from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Salt Lake City International Airport, crashed after take-off.

2 Delta Air Lines Fleet

Since retiring its MD-11s, Delta has an all-twinjet fleet. Like Continental Airlines, Delta has abolished three-class seating, replacing both first and business class on intercontinental flights with a single premium class called "BusinessElite."

**Delta Air Lines Fleet (excluding Delta Connection)**
Type	Number	Total # of seats	Cargo capacity	Engine Model	Audio/Video
Boeing 737-200	52	107	850 cu ft	Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15A	No
Boeing 737-300	26	128	850 cu ft	CFM International CFM56-3B1	No
McDonnell Douglas MD-88	120	142	1,253 cu ft	Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219	No
McDonnell Douglas MD-90	16	150	1,300 cu ft	International Aero V2525-D5	Yes
Boeing 737-800	71	148	1,555 cu ft	CFM International CFM56-7B26	Yes
Boeing 757-200	121	180	1,670 cu ft	Pratt & Whitney PW2037	Yes
Boeing 767-200	15	204	2,875 cu ft	GE CF6-80A	Yes
Boeing 767-300	28	252	3,770 cu ft	GE CF6-80A2	Yes
Boeing 767-300ER	59	195	3,770 cu ft	GE CF6-80C2B6F / Pratt & Whitney PW4060	Yes
Boeing 767-400ER	21	287	4,580 cu ft	GE CF6-80C2B7F	Yes
Boeing 777-200	8	277	5,656 cu ft	Rolls-Royce Trent 892	Yes

3 Destinations

The list does not include cities only served by Delta Connection.

3.1 Asia

3.1.1 East Asia

Japan
- Tokyo ( Narita International Airport)

3.1.2 South Asia

India
- Mumbai ( Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport)

3.2 Europe

3.3 North America

3.3.1 United States, U.S. Territories, Canada, and Mexico

3.3.2 Bermuda and the Caribbean, excluding US territories

Aruba
- Orenjestad
Bahamas
- Nassau
Bermuda
- Bermuda ( Bermuda International Airport)
Cayman Islands
- Grand Cayman ( Owen Roberts International Airport)
Cuba
- Havana ( José Martí International Airport)
Dominican Republic
- Santo Domingo ( Las Americas International Airport)
Jamaica
- Montego Bay ( Sangster International Airport )
Netherlands Antilles
- Curaçao
- Sint Maarten
Saint Lucia
- Vieux-Fort ( Hewanorra International Airport)
Turks and Caicos Islands
- Providenciales

3.3.3 Central America

Costa Rica
- Guanacaste Liberia
- San Jose
El Salvador
- San Salvador
Guatemala
- Guatemala City
Panama
- Panama City ( Tocumen International Airport)

3.4 South America

4 IATA Code

Delta Air Lines uses the IATA designator code DL.

Members of the Skyteam Alliance

Future Members: Air Europa | Aeroflot | China Southern Airlines

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