Download Delta Air Lines Logo — Delta Air Lines is an airline based business which is located in Atlanta in the state of Georgia in the U.S.
Delta is a founding member, along with Aeromexico , Air France and Korean Air , of SkyTeam , an alliance of airlines that provides global customers with extensive worldwide destinations, flights and other services. Including its partners in SkyTeam and partners worldwide codeshare. From the October 30, 2008, Northwest Airlines is part of Delta, creating the world’s largest airline, displacing American Airlines , flying to 375 destinations in 66 countries, carrying more than 170 million passengers a year and nearly 75,000 employees worldwide. The integration of NWA to Delta, it will take between 12 and 24 months to finally operate under the same code and a single certificate.
U.S. airline Delta is the largest and most important transatlantic flights, to more destinations in Europe and Asia than any other airline and is the second largest operator in the United States in Latin America after American Airlines . Its main hub is Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta , which in 2004 carried more than 50 million passengers, making it the busiest international airport in the world followed by Chicago O’Hare, the main hub of United Airlines and a major American hubs.
In addition to Atlanta, Delta had established three secondary hubs in Cincinnati, New York-JFK and Salt Lake City, following the merger with Northwest is now extended to 8 icluyendo airports in Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Tokyo-Narita Delta has used various types of aircraft through its history, as the DC-3 , Boeing 747 , MD-11 , Lockheed L-1011 TriStar , Boeing 727 , Boeing 737 , Boeing 757 , Boeing 767 , McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and DC-8 . Delta was the first company to use the DC-8 and DC-9.