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Delta (Once Again) Restarts Former Pan Am Non-Stop Service from New York to Berlin
Delta Air Lines restarted daily service on Thursday from New York City to Berlin, a route inherited from Pan American World Airways.
The Atlanta-based carrier first announced plans for the most recent reboot last summer.
Delta acquired the Berlin route along with many other European destinations when it acquired and began to operate Pan Am’s transatlantic routes on November 1, 1991, giving the Atlanta-based airline a major presence on flights across the …
Delta Resumes Service to Havana
Delta Air Lines announced on Monday the resumption of service to Aeropuerto Internacional in Havana from Miami International Airport.
The Atlanta-based carrier had resumed service to Havana in 2016 after a hiatus of 55 years but discontinued flights at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Delta will operate the approximately one-hour flights using Boeing 737 aircraft.
Other U.S. airlines have already resumed service to Havana including American Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, and …
Delta Passenger Opens Aircraft Emergency Exit on Seattle-Bound Flight on Taxiway, Deploying Evacuation Chute
A passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to Seattle on Saturday opened an emergency exit while the plane was sitting still on a taxiway, activating the emergency slide.
Flight 1714 was preparing for departure, officials said, when the passenger opened the emergency exit and inflated the evacuartion slide and proceeded to slide down to the tarmac. The passenger was detained by crewmembers and later “transported to a …
Millionaire and Silicon Valley ‘Creep’ Steve Kirsch Offers Woman in First Class on Delta Flight $100,000 to Remove Face Mask
Just because someone is a tech innovator doesn’t mean he isn’t also a creep or worse.
Steve Kirsch, an American entrepreneur, is one of two people who independently invented the optical mouse in 1980 and created the search engine Infoseek, which was launched in 1994. More recently he has been a promoter of misinformation about coronavirus vaccines as well as a philanthropic supporter of medical research.
In 2020, the first full year …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – March 16: FDA Says No Connection Between Paxlovid and Rebound, Drug for MS Might Serve as Covid Antiviral
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 1,100th day of the pandemic.
Just because someone is a tech innovator doesn’t mean he isn’t also a creep or worse.
Steve Kirsch, an American entrepreneur, is one of two people who independently invented the optical mouse in 1980 and created the search engine Infoseek, which was launched in 1994. More recently …
Delta Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Scotland As Flames Shoot From Wing Shortly After Takeoff
A Delta Air Lines flight en route from Edinburgh to New York was forced to make an emergency landing on Friday just minutes after takeoff when a passenger noticed flames coming out of one of the jet’s wings.
The Boeing 767-300 operating as Delta Flight 209 pushed back from the gate from Edinburgh Airport at 10:51 a.m. local time and took off at 11:01 a.m. The pilot declared an emergency and …
Virgin Atlantic to Join SkyTeam Alliance in March
Virgin Atlantic Airways said it plans to become a member of the SkyTeam alliance on March 2. The airline had first announced it would join the alliance in September 2022 after years of saying it had no plans to do so.
The airline, which was founded in 1984 by Sir Richard Branson, is 49% owned by Delta Air Lines, a founding member of SkyTeam. Virgin Atlantic is also a founding partner …
