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{{Infobox airline

| airline = Delta Air Lines

| image = Delta logo.svg

| image_size = 250

| alt =

| IATA = DL

| ICAO = DAL

| callsign = DELTA

| founded = {{Start date and years ago|1924|5|30}}<br>(as [[Huff Daland Dusters]])<br>[[Macon, Georgie]], US<ref name=founded>{{cite web |url=http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=18&cat=39 |title=History |date=October 2010 |work=news.delta.com |publisher=Delta Air Lines Inc. |accessdate=January 11, 2011 |quote=1924 The Huff Daland Dusters crop-dusting operation, which formed the roots for Delta, founded in Macon, Ga.}}</ref>

| commenced = {{Start date and years ago|1929|06|17}}<ref name=NAAH>{{cite book|last1=Norwood |first1=Tom |last2=Wegg |first2=John |title=North American Airlines Handbook |publisher=Airways International |location=Sandpoint, Idaho |year=2002 |edition=3rd |isbn=0-9653993-8-9 |page=40}}</ref>

| ceased =

| aoc = DALA026A<ref name=faa_aoc>{{cite web |url=http://av-info.faa.gov/detail.asp?DSGN_CODE=DALA&OPER_FAR=121&OPER_NAME=DELTA+AIR+LINES+INC |title=Airline Certificate Information – Detail View |date=September 30, 1988 |work=av-info.faa.gov |publisher=Federal Aviation Administration |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5vt5CKeQc |archivedate=January 20, 2011 |accessdate=January 20, 2011 |quote=Certificate Number DALA026A}}</ref>

| bases =

| hubs =

<!-- DO NOT ADD MEMPHIS! THE AIRLINE DEHUBBED IT IN SEPTEMBER 2013 AND THE AIRLINE NO LONGER LISTS IT AS THEIR HUB! -->

* [[Amsterdam Airport Schiphol]]

* [[Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Internaitional Airport]]

* [[Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport]]

* [[Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta Internaitional Airport]]

* {{nowrap|[[John F. Kennedy Internaitional Airport]] <small>(New York Ceety)</small>

* [[LaGuardia Airport]] <small>(New York Ceety)</small>}}

* [[Los Angeles International Airport]]<ref name="ReferenceB">http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=20309&cat=3191</ref>

* [[Minneapolis-Saint Paul Internaitional Airport]]

* [[Narita Internaitional Airport]] <small>(Tokyo)</small>

* [[Charles de Gaulle Airport]] <small>(Paris)</small>

* [[Salt Lake City Internaitional Airport]]

* [[Seattle-Tacoma Internaitional Airport]]<ref>http://news.delta.com/2014-06-16-Delta-celebrates-milestone-launch-of-Seattle-Hong-Kong-service</ref>

| secondary_hubs =

| focus_cities =

<!-- Do not add LAX as focus city as the airline does not have any focus cities. Please provide source stating that Delta does indeed have "focus cities" and that LAX is considered one. -->

| frequent_flyer = [[SkyMiles]]<ref name=statsandfacts />

| lounge = Delta Sky Club<ref name=statsandfacts />

| alliance = [[SkyTeam]]<ref name=statsandfacts />

| subsidiaries =

{{Collapsible list

|framestyle=border:none; padding:0;

|title=<small>Subsidiary List</small><ref name=10K>{{cite web|url=http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27904/000095012311014364/g24877e10vk.htm|title=2010 Form 10-K, Delta Air Lines, Inc.|publisher=United States Securities and Exchange Commission|accessdate=July 1, 2011}}</ref><ref name=dpj>{{cite web |url=http://www.deltaprivatejets.com/AboutNewsArticle.aspx?nk=14 |title=Delta Renames Business Jet Subsidiary ‘Delta Private Jets' |date=September 9, 2010 |work=deltaprivatejets.com |publisher=Delta Private Jets, Inc |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5vt7gQAyi |archivedate=January 20, 2010 |accessdate=January 20, 2010 |quote=Delta Private Jets, formerly Delta AirElite Business Jets, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines...}}</ref>

|1=Aero Assurance Ltd.

|2=Cardinal Insurance Company (Cayman) Ltd.

|3=Crown Rooms, Inc.

|4=DAL Global Services, LLC

|5=DAL Moscow, Inc.

|6=Delta Air Lines, Inc. and Pan American World Airways,Inc.—Unterstutzungskasse GMBH

|7=Delta Air Lines Dublin Limited

|8=Delta Air Lines Private Limited

|9=Delta Benefits Management, Inc.

|10=Delta Loyalty Management Services, LLC

|11=[[Delta Private Jets|Delta Private Jets, Inc.]]

|12=[[Endeavor Air]]

|13=Epsilon Trading, LLC

|14=Kappa Capital Management, LLC

|15=MLT Inc.

|16=Montana Enterprises, Inc.

|17=New Sky, Ltd.

|18=Northwest Aerospace Training Corporation

|19=Regional Elite Airline Services, LLC

|20=Segrave Aviation, Inc.

|21=Tomisato Shoji Kabushiki Kaisha

}}

| fleet_size = 743 <!-- per WP:Airports, figure excludes regional jets i.e. Ebraer, Canadair --> <small>(mainline only)</small><ref name=fleetsize>{{cite web|url=http://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/about-delta/corporate-information/aircraft-fleet.html |title=Aircraft Fleet |date=February 27, 2014 |work=delta.com |publisher=Delta Air Lines, Inc }}</ref>

| destinations = 247 <!-- '330' is INCORRECT because that figure includes regional airline destinations--> <small>(mainline only)</small><ref name="367destinations">{{cite press release|url=http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=43&item=1061|title=Delta Welcomes TAROM into SkyTeam Alliance|publisher=Delta Air Lines|date=June 25, 2010|accessdate=June 27, 2010}}</ref>

| company_slogan = ''Keep Climbing''

| parent =

| headquarters = [[Atlanta]], [[Georgie (U.S. state)|Georgie]], [[Unitit States|USA]]

| key_people = Richard H. Anderson <small>(CEO)</small><br>Edward Bastian <small>(Preses)</small>

| revenue = {{nowrap|{{increase}} [[United States Dollar|US$]] 37.773 billion <small>(2013)</small><ref name="FY2013">{{cite web|url=http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27904/000002790414000003/dal1231201310k.htm |title=DELTA AIR LINES, INC. Form 10-K |publisher=Securities and Exchange Commission |accessdate=February 24, 2014}}</ref>}}

|operating_income = {{increase}} US$ 10.54 billion <small>(2013)</small><ref name="FY2013"/>

|net_income = {{increase}} US$ 3.4 billion <small>(2013)</small><ref name="FY2013"/>

|assets = {{increase}} US$ 52.252 billion <small>(2013)</small><ref name="FY2013"/>

|equity = {{increase}} US$ 11.643 billion <small>(2013)</small><ref name="FY2013"/>

|num_employees = 77,755 <small>(2013)</small><ref name="FY2013"/>

|website = {{URL|https://www.delta.com/}}

}}

'''Delta Air Lines, Inc.''' is a major American airline, heidquairtered in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgie (U.S. state)|Georgie]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://av-info.faa.gov/detail.asp?DSGN_CODE=DALA&OPER_FAR=121&OPER_NAME=DELTA+AIR+LINES+INC|title=Federal Aviation Administration – Airline Certificate Information – Detail View|publisher=FAA.gov|accessdate=2012-05-01}}</ref> The [[airline]] operates a extensive domestic an internaitional netwirk servin sax [[continents]]. Delta Air Lines an its subsidiaries operate ower 5,000 flichts ivery day an hae approximately 80,000 employees.<ref name="delta_stats_facts">{{cite web|url= http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=18&cat=47 |title= Delta Stats & Facts|accessdate=December 11, 2012 }}</ref> The airline's [[Airline hub|hub]] at [[Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Internaitional Airport]] is the warld's largest airline hub, wi Hartsfield-Jackson bein the warld's busiest airport bi passenger traffec (ower 91 million passengers per year) an nummer of landings and takeoffs; it is hame tae Delta's Technical Operations Center an aw.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deltatechops.com/ |title=Delta TechOps |publisher=Delta TechOps |accessdate=2014-03-12}}</ref> Delta is the saxt-auldest operatin airline bi foondation date, an the auldest airline still operatin in the Unitit States. Delta Air Lines is ane o the fower foondin members o the [[SkyTeam]] airline alliance,<ref name="delta_stats_facts"/> the ither three bein [[Korean Air]], [[Air France]], an [[Aeroméxico]]. The lyalty program for Delta Air Lines is [[SkyMiles]]. Delta Air Lines wis the [[:en:World's largest airlines|warld's largest airline]] in terms o fleet size in 2011<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rediff.com/business/slide-show/slide-show-1-the-worlds-largest-airlines/20110915.htm#1 | title= The world's 10 largest airlines | date=September 15, 2011 | work=Rediff.com}}</ref> and scheduled passenger traffic in 2012,<ref name="WATS_pax_carried">{{cite web | url=http://www.iata.org/publications/pages/wats-passenger-carried.aspx | title= Scheduled Passengers Carried | work=[[IATA]] World Air Transport Statistics (WATS), 57th edition | accessdate=2013-07-05}}</ref> an the seicont-lairgest in terms o revenue passenger-kilometres flown in 2012.<ref name="WATS_pax-km">{{cite web | url=http://www.iata.org/publications/Pages/wats-passenger-km.aspx | title= Scheduled Passenger - Kilometres Flown | work=[[IATA]] World Air Transport Statistics (WATS), 57th edition | accessdate=2013-07-05}}</ref> Regional service for the airline is servit bi [[Delta Connection]].

==References==

;Notes

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;Bibliography

* {{cite book |last= Green |first= William |author2=Gordon Swanborough |author3=John Mowinski |title= Modern Commercial Aircraft |year= 1987 |publisher=Crown Publishers, Inc. |location=New York |isbn= 0-517-63369-8 }}

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* {{official website|https://www.delta.com/|mobile=https://m.delta.com/}}

* [http://www.deltamuseum.org/ Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum]

* {{OpenCorp}}

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