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unusual facts about Delta Connection


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.


B. J. Averell

On November 24, 1999, Averell showed up late for a 6:15 p.m. flight from Logan International Airport in Boston to Philadelphia aboard a Delta Connection commuter flight, and was denied access to the small jet because his assigned seat had been given away.

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).

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.


see also

Aerosim Flight Academy

On December 31, 2009, Delta Connection Academy, Inc., was partially sold to Flight Training Acquisition LLC (FTA) backed by Lincolnshire Management and GTI Group.