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12 unusual facts about Delta Air Lines


Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary

The title track "Adiemus" was used prior to the album's release in a 1994 Delta Air Lines television commercial (as well as related Delta Air Lines media around this time, including pre-departure videos aboard Delta flights).

British Aerospace Jetstream 41

Trans States Airlines (25) - aircraft operated as American Connection, Delta Connection and Trans World Express providing passenger feed service on behalf of respective major air carrier partners American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Trans World Airlines (TWA).

Daniel Field

The same year, Delta Air Lines began serving Atlanta and Charleston, S.C. from Augusta.

Throughout the war, Delta Air Lines served the airport with commercial airline service.

Dawn Gibbons

During this period, she met her future husband, Jim Gibbons, then a Delta Air Lines pilot.

Delta Prize for Global Understanding

The Delta Prize for Global Understanding, presented annually by Delta Air Lines and the University of Georgia, recognizes individuals or groups whose initiatives have helped promote world peace as well as globally significant efforts that provide opportunities for greater understanding among nations and cultures.

Dyna-Flytes

Among the airlines that had models released by Dyna-Flites included FedEx, Delta Air Lines, Eastern Air Lines, Pan Am, TWA and Braniff.

Hayden, Colorado

Hayden is one of the smallest communities in the U.S. to have mainline passenger jet service provided by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines on a scheduled basis, if only during the winter months when the ski season is underway in nearby Steamboat Springs.

Omnimover

Six months later, the old ride system was reused as If You Had Wings was transformed into Delta Dreamflight, which was sponsored by Delta Air Lines until 1996.

Spivey Hall

The Children’s Concert Series, sponsored in part by Delta Air Lines, won the prestigious Abby Award for arts education in Atlanta in 1998.

The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime

For the second season, the top prize consisted of two cars, ten pairs of round-trip Delta Air Lines tickets to anywhere in the continental United States, an outdoor spa, a new kitchen, living room, and dining room, and over $900,000 paid in annual installments of $36,000 for 25 years.

Voluntary redundancy

Delta Air Lines, in the aftermath of its bankruptcy filing, offered a programme that included limited flight benefits for a set period after voluntary resignation.


Air operator's certificate

This has occurred with FLYi airline's AOC being bought by Northwest Airlines to start Compass Airlines, now a feeder airline for Delta Air Lines marketed as Delta Connection), and also with Strategic Airlines purchasing the AOC, staff and routes of the failed OzJet airlines.

Airfone

Airfone's primary competitor was Air One, operated by AT&T Wireless division Claircom Communications Group, and was available onboard American Airlines, Northwest Airlines, and select Delta Air Lines aircraft.

Antigua

The island's single airport is served by several major airlines, including Virgin Atlantic, British Airways, US Airways, American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Caribbean Airlines, Air Canada, WestJet and LIAT.

Braeside Observatory

The observatory was founded in 1976 by Robert Fried, a retired Delta Air Lines captain, after a chance meeting with Sir Patrick Moore inspired him to turn his astronomical hobby into something more concrete.

Daniel Carp

Carp will serve as the next Chairman of the Board of Delta Air Lines, replacing current Chairman Gerald Grinstein.

Daytona Beach International Airport

Daytona Beach has two carriers, Delta Air Lines to Atlanta and New York(LGA) and US Airways to Charlotte.

Delta Air Lines–Northwest Airlines merger

Representative Jim Oberstar of Minnesota, who also serves as chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, made clear his opposition to the merger, and he fought it in Washington.

Doug Parker

Under his tenure as CEO, he made an unsuccessful bid to merge US Airways with Delta Air Lines in 2007, and with United Airlines in 2010.

Gwinnett County Airport

Atlanta's dominant airline, Delta, lobbied against the proposal due to its reluctance to split operations between Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and Briscoe Field, even though three low-cost carriers, Allegiant, JetBlue, and Virgin America, do not yet offer service to Atlanta.

Mark Tatge

At Forbes, Tatge wrote profiles and interviewed chief executives at many top 100 U.S. corporations, including Boeing, Motorola, United Airlines, 3M, AT&T, US Airways, Delta Air Lines, Best Buy and FedEx.

Middle Georgia Regional Airport

Commercial airline service to this airport included Eastern Airlines and Delta Air Lines with its ASA "Delta Connection" discontinuing service to the airport in 2008.

Orlando International Airport

Following Eastern's demise, Delta Air Lines assumed this role, although it later pulled much of its large aircraft operations from Orlando, and focused its service there on regional jet flights, specifically with Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Comair and Chautauqua Airlines - all part of the Delta Connection system.

RAF Ascension Island

In January 2013, a Delta Air Lines Boeing 777-232LR en route from Johannesburg to Atlanta diverted to Ascension as a result of engine problems.

Site59.com

In addition to its own web site, Site59 operated a private label distribution (ASP) product, powering last-minute sections of Travelocity, AOL Travel, CheapTickets, Yahoo! Travel, American Airlines Vacations, Delta Air Lines Vacations, Continental Airlines Vacations, Northwest's nwa.com, and Bestfares.com, among others.

Walter Landor

He also designed the corporate identities for many airlines, including Alitalia, British Airways, Garuda Indonesia, Japan Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Cathay Pacific Airways, and Singapore Airlines.