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Delta: Paulding airport plan will fail
Plans to bring airline service to Paulding County’s tiny airport drew quick criticism Friday from two giant opponents: Delta Air Lines and the city of Atlanta. “With the city of Atlanta and Mayor (Kasim) Reed, we will work together to oppose any investment in that facility,” Delta chief executive Richard ...
Delta pilots getting Microsoft tablets
Delta Air Lines is jettisoning pounds of paper navigational charts and manuals from its cockpits, replacing them with electronic versions in Microsoft Surface 2 tablets issued to 11,000 pilots. The Atlanta-based airline said the tablets will place critical flight data at the fingertips of pilots more quickly, rid the cockpit ...
Atlanta airport aims to open barbershop
Hartsfield-Jackson International is seeking businesses interested in operating the world’s busiest airport’s first barbershop. The Atlanta airport had planned to open a Jakki Colours hair salon in the airport atrium several years ago, but the salon never opened. Now, Hartsfield-Jackson wants to open a 1,349-square-foot barbershop. A pre-proposal conference for ...
Delta-Virgin Atlantic deal gets final approval
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines on Monday received final approval for a deal with British carrier Virgin Atlantic Airways aimed at bolstering its competitive position in the crucial trans-Atlantic market for flights across the pond. The approval is the final piece needed for the full rollout of a partnership launched with ...
Delta-Virgin Atlantic deal gets final approval
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines on Monday received final approval for a deal with British carrier Virgin Atlantic, aimed at bolstering its competitive position in the crucial trans-Atlantic market. The approval is the final piece needed for the full rollout of a partnership launched with Delta’s purchase of a 49 percent ...
More Delta passengers getting Porsche lifts
Delta Air Lines is expanding a perk at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport that shuttles some of its highest-paying customers in Porsches to connecting flights.The program for Delta Diamond Medallion customers has been at Hartsfield-Jackson since 2011. Now it will be expanded to New York, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, according to a ...
Airport to replace pay phones with free ones
The world’s busiest airport wants to set its pay phones free. Hartsfield-Jackson International officials plan to replace all pay phones with phones that allow free calls, with advertising providing the revenue. It’s a reflection of changing times: Cell phones have turned pay phones into relics from an earlier age. Many ...
Delta gets branding rights at Seattle stadium
Delta Air lines said it has signed a deal for signage and branding positions at CenturyLink Field stadium, the home turf of the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks and Major League Soccer’s Sounders FC.Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.While Delta’s name will not be on the stadium, the nearly 75,000-square-foot ...
Delta rejoins S&P 500 index
Delta Air Lines is rejoining Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index for the first time since 2005 when the carrier filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The move signals a return to financial stability for Atlanta’s dominant airline. Delta will be added to the S&P 500 after the close of trading ...
Delta sues Pratt & Whitney over parts deal
Delta Air Lines is suing Pratt & Whitney, accusing the engine maker of breaching a parts agreement the Atlanta airline said could save it millions in repair costs.The suit, filed this week in Fulton County Superior Court, said Pratt & Whitney refuses to recondition engine parts from planes Delta is ...
Atlanta celebrates A380 super-jumbo jet
The world’s biggest airliner is now serving the world’s busiest airport — and all it took was several years, $30 million and a gleam in Louis Miller’s eye to make it happen. Miller, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport’s general manager, on Friday celebrated the new A380 flights to Atlanta on Korean Air’s ...
Delta to give pay raises in 2014
Delta Air Lines is giving pay raises to most of its nearly 80,000 employees next year after reporting record quarterly profits earlier this year.Atlanta-based Delta said it will give customer-facing employees raises of up to 3 percent effective April 1, following previous rounds of pay increases. Meanwhile, other employees will ...
Delta orders 40 Airbus jets
Delta Air Lines has ordered 40 Airbus planes worth more than $5 billion based on list price, marking the airline’s first purchase from Airbus in more than 20 years. The order of 10 international wide-body A330-300s and 30 domestic narrow-body A321s will allow Atlanta-based Delta to renew its fleet with ...
2,000-plus at Delta to help Habitat for Humanity
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines said more than 2,000 of its employees will help build new or renovate existing Habitat For Humanity homes between now and Nov. 1. In addition to one in Jonesboro, employees will help with projects in Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York City, Los Angeles and Seattle. The ...
Delta flight forced to return to Hartsfield-Jackson
A Delta Air Lines flight bound for Jacksonville, Fla., returned to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Friday after an on-board warning that there was a potential issue with the aircraft’s flaps, a Delta spokesman said.Spokesman Michael Thomas said the crew of Flight 1186 followed routine procedures for returning the Boeing 757 ...
Ex-Delta pilot files sex discrimination suit
A former Delta Air Lines pilot has filed a sex discrimination suit against the Atlanta-based carrier, alleging it ignored her complaints about being harassed while in the cockpit. In a lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, flight engineer Kimberly McCraw said Delta subjected her to “a ...
Delta: Healthcare law to cost us millions
Delta Air Lines told federal officials earlier this summer that complying with the new health care law will cost the company and its employees tens of millions of dollars a year. Delta’s acknowledgement of the warning on Thursday came one day after another large Atlanta company, UPS, confirmed it will ...
How Georgia firms are helping to pay for Asia trade mission
Some of Georgia’s most powerful companies are helping to underwrite a 12-day trade mission launched this week by Gov. Nathan Deal, guaranteeing them exclusive access to leaders during the high-stakes trip.Coca-Cola Co., Aflac Inc. and Delta Air Lines are among the firms helping to defray travel costs or paying to ...
Birds force Delta flight back to airport
A Delta Air Lines flight was forced to return to Atlanta’s airport after running into birds Friday afternoon. Flight 2206, destined for Norfolk, Va., landed without incident, and all 173 passengers were put on another plane, according to Delta spokesman Michael Thomas. Crew members “acted out of an abundance of ...
Delta names new fuel program head
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines named oil industry executive Graeme Burnett its senior vice president of fuel optimization, effective Aug. 1.Burnett, who was previously Total Petrochemicals’ chief executive of petrochemicals and refining for the United States, will oversee Delta’s fuel program, including the Trainer, Pa. oil refinery it purchased last year ...
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