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Delta to Acquire Used Airbus A350s and Boeing 737s
Delta Air Lines said Tuesday it had agreed to purchase 29 used Boeing 737-900ERs and to lease seven used Airbus A350-900s as part of a fleet replenishment program.
The airline retired approximately 200 older aircraft amidst the coronavirus pandemic-induced decline in travel in 2020.
“These aircraft are an investment in Delta’s future,” Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian said in a statement.
The Atlanta-based carrier expects deliveries of the planes to be complete by …
Delta Reports First Quarterly Profit Since Start of Pandemic
Delta Air Lines announced financial results for the second quarter of 2021.
The airline reported its first quarterly profit since the start of the pandemic and the subsequent decline in travel across the globe. The airline said that domestic travel in the United States has “fully recovered” to 2019 levels and that there have been “encouraging” signs of improvement in business and international travel.
Adjusted operating revenue for the quarter was $6.3 …
Delta, Virgin to Return to T3 as Heathrow Reopens Second Runway
London’s Heathrow Airport will reopen Terminal 3 as well as its second runway as it prepares for a surge in air travel with the reopening of the European Union to visitors with vaccinated status.
The reopening means that both Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic Airways will return to T3 on or about July 15. The runway resumed operations on Monday.
American Airlines, which was a long-time occupant of T3, will remain …
Delta to Hire 1,000 New Pilots by Next Summer
Delta Air Lines planes to hire more than 1,000 pilots by next summer as travel recovers from a coronavirus pandemic-induced decline.
The airline, which currently has 12,000 pilots, told employees in a memorandum viewed by Frequent Business Traveler that hiring would begin midyear and would start with 75 pilots in the period June through August.
“This is exciting news both for the pilots looking to join Delta and those of you already …
Delta CEO Expects Domestic Travel to Return to ‘Close to 100%’ of Pre-Pandemic Levels by End of Summer
Delta CEO Ed Bastian said he believes that domestic travel in the United States will return to almost 100% of pre-pandemic levels by the end of the summer.
“We expect that, by the end of this summer, that number will get pretty darn close to 100%,” he told Fox News reporter Liz Clamin in an interview on Thursday.
“It’s been a massive return to travel led by consumers,” Bastian added, saying that …
Major Airlines Including American, Delta, Southwest Hit by Internet Outage
Major airlines across the globe, as well as financial institutions and other companies, were hit by brief online outages Thursday.
The outages, which hit companies from Australia to Hong Kong to the United States, were due to a disruption at Akamai, a Massachusetts-based company that operates a global content delivery network, or CDN.
American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines all experienced outages at approximately 1 a.m. EDT that …
Delta, Virgin Launch ‘FlyReady’ Digital Health Credentials Tool
Delta Air Lines announced Delta FlyReady, a digital health credential platform that allows passengers to schedule Covid-19 tests, verify test results, and confirm that they meet the necessary requirements for entry to a particular destination.
The system doesn’t currently manage coronavirus vaccination credentials but the airline said that support for such credentials will be added later this summer.
The justification for the system was simple: “We realized that our customers would need …
