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  Delta Air Lines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Delta Air Lines NYSE: DAL (IATA: DL, ICAO: DAL, and Callsign: Delta) is a major U.S. airline headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, operating a large domestic and international network that spans North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean.
In terms of total operating revenues, Delta is the fourth-largest airline in the world (behind Air France-KLM, American Airlines, and United Airlines) As of March 1, 2005, Delta and its subsidiaries served 219 destinations in 46 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as 53 international destinations in 35 countries.
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.
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 Delta Air Lines biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Delta Air Lines is an airline based in Atlanta, Georgia, operating a large domestic network within the USA, as well as an international network that spans Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Delta currently operates a hub at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, although it is planned to be dehubbed in 2005 in effort to avoid bankruptcy.
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.
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 Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum - Delta History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Delta Air Lines' first passenger flight was in 1929, but its long history of service is actually rooted in agriculture, when Huff Daland Dusting, the world's first aerial crop-dusting organization took off in 1924.
Delta's new activity represented a bold financial venture since the route was operated without benefit of a mail contract, and revenue from airmail was needed to supplement passenger operation expenses.
Delta was an early pioneer in the use of the hub and spoke system in 1955.
www.deltamuseum.org /History/main_delta_history.html   (2398 words)

  
 Delta Air Transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Delta Air Transport was an airline based in Belgium.
The first flight of Delta Air Transport took place on 10 November 2001.
The airline was taken over by SN Air Holdings and changed its name to SN Brussels Airlines on 15 February 2002.
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 Airline History - Airlines by index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1977 the Convairs were replace with Fairchild-Hiller FH-227 turboprops and DAT introduced a multi-tone blue livery replacing the earlier red cheatline and fin livery.
DAT introduced Fokker F-28 jets which were eventually replaced with Avro RJ85s and later RJ100s (BAe 146s).
DAT lost it's corporate identity when it's aircraft were repainted in full SABENA livery with small 'DAT' titles on nose (starboard side).
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 House of Lords - European Communities - N/A Report
Delta is the third largest airline in the world, when measured in terms of revenue and carried more passengers world-wide last year than any other airline—103 million passengers, which compares to less than 40 million passengers carried last year by British Airways.
Delta Air Lines is the largest US carrier on the North Atlantic and derives around 16 per cent of its total revenues from its transatlantic operations.
Delta has admired the UK government's stance in encouraging the liberalisation of air transport within Europe and is encouraged that there may finally be a possibility of introducing similar liberalisation on the North Atlantic in those markets that are still subject to constraints.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld199798/ldselect/ldeucom/139/8061102.htm   (2480 words)

  
 BBC News | BUSINESS | Virgin in Belgian airline tie-up
DAT's new owners, led by former European Union industry commissioner Etienne Davignon, were recruited by the Belgian government to put together a viable new airline from the remnants of Sabena.
DAT's new owners were ordered by Sabena's receivers to restructure the smaller airline's 100m euro debt as a condition of the buy-out going ahead.
DAT, a Sabena subsidiary operating mostly on short-haul routes, made a profit this year, and did not file for bankruptcy at the same time as its parent company.
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 Air transport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Airports differ from other transportation terminals, such as bus or train stations, in two important ways: (1) they require more land, and (2) they are usually located away from the centres of the cities they serve.
Air safety, pilot qualifications, and the certification and inspection of aircraft are the responsibility of separate national bodies, such as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the United States, and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in the United Kingdom (UK).
Air carrier airport is an airport that serves planes of scheduled airlines.
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 Delta Air Lines - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=DAL)) (IATA: DL, ICAO: DAL, and Callsign: Delta) is a major U.S. airline headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, operating a large domestic and international network that spans North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
Delta also has large operations in many other cities, including Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, and Washington, D.C. Its major international gateways are Atlanta, Cincinnati, and (most recently) New York-JFK.
Delta has a marketing alliance with both Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines and is a founding member of, and the second largest carrier in, the SkyTeam international alliance.
www.grohol.com /wiki/Delta_Air_Lines   (1248 words)

  
 DELTA AIR LINES, INC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Delta President and CEO Leo F. Mullin believes that this award "affirms the progress of the 74,000-plus Delta team that is working towards our goal of being the best airline in the world." Delta's consistent growth can be attributed to its successful transition of leadership.
Delta was notable for placing its four main hubs-Atlanta, Cincinnati, Dallas-Forth Worth and Salt Lake City -in areas that effectively distributed traffic along its routes and to other hubs that will assist passengers in making international connections.
Delta is known for treating all of their employees as "family." Delta also has a charity program supported by employee contributions.
www.csupomona.edu /~msharifzadeh/deltaupdate.htm   (3145 words)

  
 Air Belgium - - Zaventem - Belgium - - ATI, Air Transport Intelligence - ATI — Air Transport Intelligence from Reed ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Air Transport Intelligence (ATI) contains a wealth of information on airlines such as full contact details, key management, financial data and traffic statistics, detailed fleet data with listings for individual aircraft, full schedule data, details of alliances and codeshares, the airline's ownership, and details of its maintenance providers.
Air Belgium International says it is struggling to find enough new business or potential investment in order to survive beyond the 1 November deadline when it is due to be wound up.
Air Belgium International is to close down at the end of the summer season in the face of ferocious pricing competition in the Belgian charter sector.
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 Delta Air Lines - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Delta Connection feeds the airline's hubs with connecting traffic and is operated by Delta's wholly-owned subsidiaries Comair and Atlantic Southeast Airlines, as well as Atlantic Coast Airlines in the northeast and mid-Atlantic states, Chautauqua Airlines in Florida, and SkyWest Airlines in the mountain states.
Many more cities are served by the Delta Connection carriers, and by Delta's codeshare partners, including SNCF French Rail to rail stations in France.
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.
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 Welcome to the Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum
There will be an induction ceremony April 23 at the Century of Flight Hangar at the Museum of Aviation, in Warner Robins, Georgia.
He became President of Delta in 1987, before stepping down in 1990.
Delta surplus flatware was featured in a January 19th article of the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
www.deltamuseum.org   (242 words)

  
 Air transport
Air Transport Industry is one of the best prototypes of the future world where all human activities will be integrated including administrations, companies and contractors.
Air Transport early became a global industry requiring the cooperation of independent organizations, private companies of different size and civil servants.
As a consequence the Air Transport system is increasingly complex and maybe the main contribution of the computers has been to enable this growing complexity.
www.pagebox.net /airtransport.html   (7943 words)

  
 Airliners.net Articles: The Might-Have-Beens: Convair 880 and 990
Delta Air Lines was the first airline to take delivery of an 880, the airline’s first ship setting a transcontinental speed record on its San Diego-to-Miami delivery flight on February 10, 1960.
Delta Air Lines retired its 880 fleet during 1973 (in trade to Boeing on new 727-200s) while TWA operated its 880s through 1974.
An ambitious restoration project in the United States is being undertaken be a group named “Team Convair” that has acquired and plans to return to flying status a former Northeast and TWA 880; the group’s work is highlighted on their website, www.convair880.com.
www.airliners.net /articles/read.main?id=67   (2508 words)

  
 Air Transport
United Airlines and Delta Air Lines are expected to announce a similar alliance soon.
Identifies important challenges that confront European air transport if it is to continue playing a major role in EU development...
Air travelers are experiencing longer trip times and more inconveniences that, in turn, threaten to reduce demand for air travel.
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 Air transport services /
Air Jet - offering service between London City Airport and Paris-Charles de Gaulle including ticketless business class.
Air Lanka - the national carrier of Sri Lanka with routes to 31 destinations in 22 countries.
Tarom Romanian Air Transport - the national airline operator, domestic and international flights, passenger and cargo, scheduled and charter flights.
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 Smiliner: BAe 146/Avro RJ Operators - Belgium
Delta Air Transport (DAT), SABENA's regional subsidiary, operated a fleet of six BAe 146-200s, fourteen Avro RJ85s, and twelve RJ100s.
Delta Air Transport (DAT) operated BAe 146s and Avro RJs on behalf of SABENA, in full SABENA colors until SABENA went bankrupt in November 2001.
SN Brussels Airlines is the new name of defunct SABENA former regional subsidiary, Delta Air Transport (DAT).
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 eyefortransport.com - 9/7/2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Delta Air Transport's board of directors has designated Johan Vanneste as president and CEO, replacing Claude Palmero who left the company at the end of April.
He is also president of Belgian Air Transport Association, and has followed various tuitions in plane maintenance, air safety and crew management.
Furthermore, Christoph Muller, president of Delta Air Transport's board of directors and Sabena managing director, welcomed Mr Vanneste's arrival.
www.eyefortransport.com /print.asp?news=16869   (154 words)

  
 air cargo transport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Air Berlin passenger planes to transport cargo from tomorrow -...
Air freight, air cargo shipping, international shipping and air cargo carriers.
Specialize in chartering and leasing aircraft for air cargo, executive and corporate passenger transport worldwide.
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 Delta Air Transport nv/sa - Fact Sheet - Hoover's
The airline (whose legal name, Delta Air Transport, is not used commercially) takes advantage of its central European location with a point-to-point system of flights, which allows it to reduce passenger layover times.
SN Air Holdings has purchased 70% of discount airline Virgin Express (Virgin Group retains the other 30%), which it is combining with existing SN Brussels operations.
There are 7 competitors for Delta Air Transport; see more.
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 Delta Air Lines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In response to the tremendous growth of air travel and the demanding need for excellence in customer service, Delta has joined other U.S. airlines and the Air Transport Association (ATA) in an effort to provide passengers with a clear understanding of our industry's commitment to meet essential performance objectives.
providing meal allowances and hotel accommodations at Delta contracted facilities, based on availability, when customers who are away from their home or destination are inconvenienced overnight due to a delay or cancellation within Delta's control.
At the urging of Delta and other member carriers, the ATA filed comments with the Department of Transportation August, 27, 1999, supporting the increase for the per passenger baggage liability limitation from $1,250 to $2,500.
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Transport Canada and Transport Quebec commissioned the KPMG consulting firm in November 1998, to produce this study, in cooperation with Agra Monenco.
Transport Quebec has closed a number of highways, and is warning drivers to be carefull on those that remain open.
In July 2002, Canada's Transport Minister David Collenette and Quebec Minister of Transport Serge Menard announced a cost-sharing agreement for a $75.2......(Continue Reading)
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