Talk:Delta Air Lines/Archive 5

Atlanta, Georgia, United States
If we're going to say that Delta is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, shouldn't we do the same for the other major US airlines? The articles for United, American, US Airways, and Southwest mention the city and state that they are headquartered in, but not the country. Anyway, if someone could explain to me the reason why it's necessary to state that the headquarters of an American airline is in the United States, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks! AmericanLemming (talk) 04:37, 1 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Clarity, as there is another Georgia, and we shouldn't assume readers will automatically know the difference. I don't watchlist the other articles you mentioned, so uniformity with them isn't an issue with me. Are you also making sure that the articles are uniform in locations and numbers of pics, etc.? Or that the articles are approximately the same length? Do the Leads in these articles have the same word count? - BilCat (talk) 04:49, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

I apologize if I came across as rude and pretentious. I didn't think about the fact that there is another Georgia. You're right; we should mention the country because of the possibility for confusion. I'm sorry for my inconsiderate tone. AmericanLemming (talk) 04:54, 1 September 2013 (UTC)


 * It's OK, and excuse me if I layed the sarcasm on too thick in my reply. - BilCat (talk) 05:13, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

LAX hub
Should we now list LAX as a Delta hub according to this article (http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayinthesky/2013/03/07/los-angeles-a-new-hub-for-delta-air-lines/1970347/). Delta actually lists their hubs in their press releases (if anyone can check a recent Delta press release you can see they have not added LAX as a hub; the airline actually removed Memphis as a hub as it was closed on September 2, 2013). Any comments would be appreciated. 68.119.73.36 (talk) 07:43, 22 September 2013 (UTC)


 * No. We only go by what Delta lists as hubs. - BilCat (talk) 08:07, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Especially when Delta does list hubs as a regular practice. HkCaGu (talk) 08:12, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
 * disagree with my fellow chaps. commom sense serves as a better guide. --71.135.163.123 (talk) 06:19, 17 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Common sense isn't a reliable source. - BilCat (talk) 23:53, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Conversation begin continued elsewhere ...
on WikiProject Airlines thread here: Need true definitive definition of an airline hub

Thank you. --71.135.163.123 (talk) 18:13, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Location of Delta headquarters
Someone on this forum thread http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/5950785/ stated that Google Maps shows Delta HQ as being in Hapeville, Georgia. I found that Google Maps does show the HQ as being in Hapeville.

So here are the Hapeville maps: As you can see there is a chunk that is below the C-2 land. That is where the Delta HQ is.
 * Zoning: http://ga-hapeville2.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/Home/View/1107 - http://www.webcitation.org/6LzJkbbAz
 * Street: http://ga-hapeville2.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/Home/View/1233 - http://www.webcitation.org/6LzJmKa64

So, the City of Atlanta maps show that chunk as being in the Atlanta city limits
 * http://web.archive.org/web/20080824014251/http://apps.atlantaga.gov/citydir/dpcd/maps/zoning_sheet_14-128.pdf - http://www.webcitation.org/6LzCClirC

In this case Google Maps is wrong. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:25, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Source about Asia service
WhisperToMe (talk) 09:45, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Ng, Jeffrey. "Delta Shifts Focus From Japan as Trans-Pacific Hub." The Wall Street Journal. February 10, 2014.

"Delta operated by Northwest"
When I was reading this on the [] Delta Airlines page, and it reads Delta Airlines is an American airlines. Using the The phrase American airlines could be misinterpreted as if Delta was a part of the American Airlines Corporation.

I think the way it reads below as"headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States" is much better.

Thank you for your time. [User:Joie Bostwick] — Preceding unsigned comment added by JOIE BOSTWICK (talk • contribs) 17:23, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 May 2014
The section that lists the codeshare partners of Delta, needs to be updated to be these airlines:

Air France (AF) Aeroflot (SU) Aeromexico (AM) Air Europa (UX) Alaska (AS) Alitalia (AZ) China Airlines (CI) China Eastern (MU) China Southern (CZ) Czech (OK) GOL (G3) KLM (KL) Korean (KE) Virgin Atlantic (VS) Virgin Australia (VA) WestJet (WS)

Fnoty (talk) 20:57, 9 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I don't see any in your list that aren't either Skyteam partners or already listed. (Note that the list says it is non-Skyteam partners with which Delta has codeshare agreements.) Correct me if I'm wrong. —Alex (ASHill &#124; talk &#124; contribs) 23:31, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Hello there, I enjoy listening to Deltalina wagging her finger an appearing various times in media that made me very happy. What's happened to her? Why they replaced her by a Spanish and black flight attendant today as of 2014? I miss Kathrine lee :'( . Why has Delta done away with her? 2602:304:AF53:3E99:B932:6693:4929:92B9 (talk) 01:32, 3 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Is this relevant to the article? Tamagawa Bob (talk) 19:48, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Bunch of defects on CNN Deltalina tips video.
Hello There, I I just want to let you know there are a bunch of defects on the deltalina tips video and it badly needs a reshoot.


 * First of all, There is a moderate line in the men's restroom?


 * Secondly why is deltalina 51 minutes late for her shot?


 * thirdly, why did the cameraman shot her squeaky pointy heels (2003-2012) (at 00:04 and 00:39) instead looking at her body?


 * 4: Why don't she tell us her travel tips right away until 0:27 Into the video?


 * 5: why are there American/British flags on top of her baggage.


 * 6: and and why is the plane a 777 in the interior and a Crj-900 on the outside?

"Deltalina's travel tips", CNN.com December 18, 2011

They need to reshoot this CNN video this time by July 2015, W/ An A330-300, both inside and outside.

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Accident at La Guardia, 5 March 21015
The Aviation Herald reports that Delta Flight 1086 departed the runway on landing at La Guardia and was severely damaged. Possibly not quite notable enough for an article, but should it be mentioned here (and at the airport and MD88 articles)? Mjroots (talk) 18:14, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Delta safey video talk (Criticism)
Issue:Delta Air Lines did very poorly on the new safety videos(2012-present). These videos include nonsense dancing, fan cruft and humor. It badly needs a new reboot to a much more serious tone to foucus on the true safey standards with the delta filght attendent Lisa in late January 2016, and delta is going to be a 4-star airline by that date or they must revert to the video prior to the ugly safey videos. 2600:1006:B15C:7C00:AD79:AEF4:DB20:652E (talk) 03:12, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Edit Request
Can someone remove Cancun as a focus city as there are no sources stating that CUN is a focus city. 97.85.113.113 (talk) 01:11, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Stickee (talk) 03:21, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 July 2015
MSP is now Delta's second largest hub, as Detroit continues to be cut and shrunk.

Dtwmco96 (talk) 18:13, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: as you have not cited reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 18:21, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

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Edit Request
Can someone remove CUN, MCO, and RDU as Delta does not have focus cities and no sources were provided. 97.85.113.113 (talk) 06:25, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Conifer (talk ) 06:32, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Hail damage, 9 August 2015
Another one.. []Seyon (talk) 19:42, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Destinations from international 'hubs' AMS, CDG
Would somebody please check the number of destinations served from CDG and AMS in the Destinations section? They are listed as 19 and 20 respectively and that sounds wrong to me. Which 20 US airports does Delta provide with international service? Unless there are fifth-freedom routes to Europe that I'm not aware of? The source given is just a link to the generic Delta press web site.

As a quick cross check I looked at the wikipedia parges for CDG and AMS and they give 8 destinations for each airport, plus one seasonal route:

ATL, BOS, DTW, MSP, JFK, EWR, PDX, SEA + seasonally SLC. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carolus m (talk • contribs) 14:14, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Per DL Route Map, http://dl.fltmaps.com/en CDG has routes to Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Houston, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, New York (JFK and EWR), Washington, Cincinnati, Atlanta, and Miami. Seasonally Pittsburg is served. That is 19 Routes.

AMS has routes to Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, New York (JFK and EWR), Washington, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta. That is 20 Routes.

I would say these numbers are indeed correct. Stinger20 (talk) 23:51, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Are you counting codeshares? Delta does not fly nonstop from CDG or AMS to any Canadian city. For example, the only nonstop flight from CDG to YVR is AF 374, a Air France flight. On CDG-YYZ/YUL there is also Air Canada, but no Delta. The only non-stop AMS-YEG is KL 675, a KLM flight.

Which Washington airport do you mean? On IAD-CDG there is only AF 55, again, an Air France flight. There is clearly no DCA-CDG, and I can't find any non-stop BWI, either.

Switching off codeshares and insisting on non-stops the Delta route map shows 10 CDG destinations:

ATL, BOS, ORD, CVG, DTW, MSP, EWR, JFK, SLC, SEA

and 9 AMS destinations:

ATL, BOS, DTW, MSP, EWR, JFK, PDX, SLC, SEA

which ignores the seasonal issue, but that's fair enough. Carolus m (talk) 23:35, 26 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I would say that Carolus is indeed correct, it is correct that multiple of the routes I included in my comment above are codeshares, which were similarly incorrectly added to the hubs stats list as they are operated by mostly Air France and KLM. Seasonally, ORD, PHL, PIT operate from CDG, while SLC is seasonal for AMS. Could an administrator please change the amount for CDG to 13 destinations/18 daily departures and AMS to 9 destinations/15 daily departures. Stinger20 (talk) 01:04, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

CDG and AMS Destinations Number Request
Could an administrator please change the amount for CDG to 13 destinations/18 daily departures and AMS to 9 destinations/15 daily departures. Please see above for the complete discussion.
 * ✅ &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:39, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have made that a little clearer, CDG is Paris, not Cincinnati. Could someone restore Cincinnati (CVG) in the hub stats table to 92 daily departures and 38 destinations. While changing Paris (CDG) to 18 daily departures with 13 destinations. Also, please re-order Tokyo, Paris, and Amsterdam by daily departures.

Here is the correct text, you can just replace the current text with this:

Hub and focus city statistics
These statistics about each of Delta's hubs are current as of February 2015. (Ranked by daily departures).

Thanks. Stinger20 (talk) 05:06, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay sorry, &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:18, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 24 October 2015
Four parts to this request, intended to fix most of the reference errors. 1) For the error, first instance of missing or empty title (ref #12), please change the reference named "Corporate Stats and Facts Delta News Hub" to this: "(note the date used is 'updated' date on website)"Also, there are three additional references citing the same material (or attempting to, as they are outdated, all three with same invalid URL - http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=18&cat=47). To correct this, substitute for references named delta_stats_facts (in lead), statsandfacts (current hubs section), and on third instance (fleet section).2) For the error, second instance of missing or empty title, the reference (under former hubs section) for Los Angeles International  does not support the content. Please either add title "Los Angeles International Airport Top 10 Carriers (2014)" and add a, or remove the reference (and add a citation needed template?).3) For the error (ref name="faq"), please change third instance (all three under SkyBonus section) to use only (i.e. remove .4) For the error (ref name="naias", sponsorships section), please change  → .Thanks!

99.170.117.163 (talk) 09:44, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 06:06, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you,, much appreciated! I see you also found two more instances for one of the errant references ( – under "Personnel" and "Destinations sections) , well as three additional uses of another ( which I had overlooked in the infobox) – most excellent! :-)On a side note (not an edit request, just happened to notice), it seems there is a different reference error, outdated link, on "Hub and focus city statistics" subheading of "Destinatons" (new correct URL should be http://news.delta.com/global-network where individual links to "stats" on each "key" location is available, maybe even better or more concise to use a seperate and unique reference specifically linking to the pertinent URL per each item), but at least no red citation error on that one (heheh!). :-D –99.170.117.163 (talk) 10:34, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Also on the hub statistics, MSP is now the second largest hub and DTW is the third-largest. 97.85.113.113 (talk) 19:00, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Financials for 2014
Let's update the financials - 2014's came out in February 2015 showing:

(in millions)

Operatingrevenue $ 40,362

Operating income 2,206

Income before income taxes 1,072

Net income $ 659

Total assets $ 54,121

Stockholders' equity $ 8,813

http://d1lge852tjjqow.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000027904/57b007ce-7d42-4818-a9d6-cdce500d3f52.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Racingew (talk • contribs) 14:29, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
 * An alternate link, rather than or in addition to the .pdf linked to from Delta Investor Relations, is here at the Securities and Exchange Comission site: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27904/000002790415000003/dal1231201410k.htm (maybe preferred?). – 99.170.117.163 (talk) 10:48, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

And http://ir.delta.com/stock-and-financial/sec-filings/SEC-Filings-Details/default.aspx?FilingId=10467596Ndjo7189 (talk) 20:05, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

LAX and BOS: hubs or focus cities
Boston and Los Angeles are listed at http://news.delta.com/corporate-stats-and-facts as key markets/hubs but they are not listed at in the hubs table at the page. Citydude1017 (talk) 19:22, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * They updated it on October 5. No longer there. HkCaGu (talk) 22:10, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The table doesn't list BOS or LAX as hubs but the introductory paragraph mentions Boston and Los Angeles as "key markets" but it's not the same as a focus city. 97.85.113.113 (talk) 22:24, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * If Los Angeles is not a hub why is it Deltas only connection to Australia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Townroswell (talk • contribs) 23:59, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Uhh, market? fuel? HkCaGu (talk) 00:56, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Logistical reasons. Mainly because of a combination the range of the aircraft used, connecting flights, and scheduling of the aircraft. Because of the distance of Australia from the US, non-stop flights to Sydney can only be made with the western half of the US. If using the great circle distance, Atlanta would be within the range of the 777-200LR (9285mi vs. 9840mi), but aircraft fly longer distances than the great circle distance because of weather patterns. Seattle is a hub, but Los Angeles has more origin/destination traffic. There are many more factors when determining routes, such as scheduling the use of aircraft, how many gates the airline has at the airport, ground operations costs, etc. AHeneen (talk) 04:24, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Do we have to rely on the exact wording used by the airlines? The poorly-sourced focus city article says that "key city" is an alternative term for focus city. Could Delta's use of "key markets" be synonymous with focus city? I think so. I searched their website for facts, but couldn't find very recent statistics for number of daily flights at LAX or BOS. Based on the data in the article and the airline's use of "key markets", LAX and BOS are clearly focus cities even it the airline doesn't use that term. AHeneen (talk) 04:24, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * To add to that, just because they have large numbers of flights, does not mean they are hubs, look at CVG, it has less than 100 flights a day, but is still listed as a hub and not a "key city". LAX and BOS are markets where DL has a large O&D presence and while there are connection passengers, they are listed as "key cities" and not hubs. This means airports like CVG, which is mostly built on connection passengers, should be listed as a hub (like it is) and LAX/BOS should be listed as a focus city. Look at DL's website, nowhere are they mentioned as hubs, just "key cities" which is basically a focus city. Stinger20 (talk) 23:12, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

delta uses focus city and key markets interchangeably. Whats the status on this? Can we call them focus cities yet ? They arent hubs but key markets or focus cities suite. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.209.52.70 (talk) 18:40, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I do not see any disagreement in this discussion, nor have I seen any reverting on the BOS or LAX article. I think it is safe to list both of these airports as focus cities. Stinger20 (talk) 14:50, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I would agree as well. A lot of connections are driven through Boston, LAX and to a lesser degree RDU. Jfern022 (talk) 15:34, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

LAX is listed as a Delta hub here: I'm pretty sure that BOS is only a Delta focus city through. 172.56.39.134 (talk) 00:47, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 29 January 2016
Delta Air Lines now considers Boston Logan a hub: http://news.delta.com/boston-logan-international-airport-0 Add Boston to Hubs list in Infobox and Hubs section

Mike gigs (talk) 20:58, 29 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Please add info like this in to the existing discussion at the top of the page, consensus so far has said that BOS is not a hub. So, by your source and position, it should obviously be discussed further, it is not ready to be changed. This is the reason the page is fully protected right now. Stinger20 (talk) 16:55, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Delta Hub at LAX
Can a confirmed user please add LAX back as a Delta hub? Here is a reliable source confirming this:


 * NOTE: The edit has already been made at the LAX article. Thanks! 172.56.39.134 (talk) 00:45, 14 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Please add info like this in to the existing discussion at the top of the page, consensus so far has not come to a conclusion. So, by your source and position, it should obviously be discussed further, it is not ready to be changed. This is the reason the page is fully protected right now. Stinger20 (talk) 16:56, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Protected Edit Request
I noticed on the hub stats table, CVG is listed as Cincinnati/N. Kentucky. I am unsure as to why, as Cincinnati is the city, whereas Northern Kentucky in a Geographic Region, not a city, plus it is not listed as such anywhere else. Even though Cincinnati has a second Commercial airport at LUK, the majority of airports list CVG as Cincinnati and LUK as Cincinnati-LUK. If some one could change the title to just Cincinnati that would be great! Stinger20 (talk) 01:11, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The article is at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. Surely the first step would be to move this article (or start a RM discussion) if you feel it is misplaced? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:31, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I think there was misunderstaning, the label for Cincinnati on the Hub/Key Cities Table should be just Cincinnati, not Cincinnati/N. Kentucky. This was discussed on WP:Airports and needs to be changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stinger20 (talk • contribs)
 * Please provide a source to show why the label should be changed, or a link to the place this was discussed. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:16, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
 * This was a discussion a long time ago and the rule was added on WP:Airports (direct link to rule WikiProject Airports/page content), links to airports in wikipedia are to be named by city, not airport name. In this case, the airport's name is Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. Based on WP:Airports, as it is on all other pages, the link to this article should be Cincinnati which uses the city name, not Cincinnati/N. Kentucky which uses the airport name. There is no source other than the rule on WP:Airports, it is a standard rule for aviation related articles on WP:Airports and WP:Airlines. Stinger20 (talk) 17:04, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 31 January 2016
Request for the change of Hub and focus city statistics. Updating from Feb 2015 to Jan 2016.

These statistics about each of Delta's hubs are current as of January 2016. (Ranked by daily departures). Rank, City, Code, # Flights, # Destinations. 1 Atlanta (ATL) 960 219 2 Detroit (DTW) 411 126 3 Minneapolis/St. Paul (MSP) 382 133 4 New York City (LGA) 262 56 5 Salt Lake City (SLC) 227 83 6 New York City (JFK) 187 81 7 Los Angeles (LAX) 155 56 8 Seattle/Tacoma (SEA) 109 44 9 Cincinnati/N. Kentucky (CVG) N/A N/A 10 Boston (BOS) 78 20 11 Amsterdam (AMS) 26 20 12 Tokyo (NRT) 18 17 13 Paris (CDG) 10 20 Maxbaby01 (talk) 02:43, 31 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Just to help out, CVG is at 82 departures and 37 destinations. Also, your numbers are incorrect for AMS and CDG. The current numbers are correct for these two hubs, as mentioned earlier on this talk page. Delta lists codeshare routes, but it does not actaully operate all of them. Stinger20 (talk) 03:28, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I was just using the stats from Delta.com. Thank you for your corrections.Maxbaby01 (talk) 12:09, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
 * This page is no longer protected, if your edit is contentious please ensure to establish a consensus on this talk page first. — xaosflux  Talk 02:27, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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Fleet Section
Sorry if this has been discussed before, or if it doens't merit a discussion at all; I'm still pretty new at this. I'm thinking about deleting this paragraph from the fleet section:

"Delta's strategy has reaped dividends, both in financial performance and in flight performance. Delta claims a flight dispatch rate in 2013 of 99.7%; its fleet had 120 days without a single maintenance failure. That included the month of October 2013, when Delta recorded no domestic flight cancellations. Delta posted a profit of $2.7 billion, the highest of any US carrier in 2013"

besides being a few years old, to my eyes it's not related to the fleet makeup or strategy. It may be at home somewhere else in the article, but not here. If anything, one would expect the use of older planes (the topic of the preceding paragraph) to hurt operational performance, which makes it sound like an ad to me. but like I say, I'm new, so I wanted some input.ThunderBacon (talk) 06:28, 15 July 2016 (UTC)


 * ✅ I went ahead with it. May still be worth discussing a new home for the operational performance info. ThunderBacon (talk) 22:17, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 2 October 2016
Delta's destination reflected on the cited page should be changed to 319 destination in 57 countries on 6 continents- as stated by Delta's official website that is currently cited.

Obizues (talk) 20:41, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
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L-100
Does anybody know that Delta operated Lockheed L-100 aircraft on freight and cargo routes briefly? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jak474 (talk • contribs) 19:21, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 December 2016
I would like to edit this page because some details and edits are wrong. Dawsondall (talk) 19:38, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
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Semi-protected edit request on 9 January 2017
There's a typo in the section 'Cabin' -> 'Delta One'. The word 'suites' should be replaced with 'seats'. Mpkossen (talk) 14:11, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: The sleeper suites are just that suites, they are different than regular airplane seats. Sir Joseph (talk) 20:34, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Orlando as focus city
Do we define hubs/focus cities on a common standard or do we take the airlines' lead? Delta flies to a significant number of non-hub cities from MCO (GRU CMH MCI IND CLE GRR BDL SDF MEM BNA PIT STL DCA) which seems to me to qualify it as a focus city.Crescent22 (talk) 18:49, 6 January 2017 (UTC) comment added by crescent22
 * We go with whatever the airline calls it. If you're interested, there's significant archived discussion of this matter RE: LAX and BOS. The short answer is that everyone defines it a little differently. So it's easiest to just stick with what the airline calls them. --ThunderBacon (talk) 18:19, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Executive chairman
Richard Anderson is no longer executive chairman of Delta Air Lines, effective Oct 11, 2016. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.27.2.115 (talk • contribs)


 * Thanks. I removed him from the infobox. Frank Blake is listed on Delta's website as the "non-executive Chairman of Delta’s Board of Directors". I don't know if that is a notable enough position for the infobox, so I have simply left the CEO in the infobox. AHeneen (talk) 03:48, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

CVG Hub
Ok, I hate to be the one to start this never-ending discussion yet again, but.... I don't think Cincinnati (CVG) should be considered a hub anymore. I'll spare the business analysis and just make these points:
 * From the article, the citation given after it is listed as a hub is a broken link (here). Based on the url, it appeared to have been a hub station fact sheet like this one for LAX. A page like this, which uses the word hub twice, is cited in the wiki article as proof for every other hub. The corresponding CVG page does not appear to exist.
 * The Delta News site has a category titled "hubs" (here) I looked through several pages and saw no mention of CVG. (Also worth pointing out if you go back a couple pages, you can see that the fact sheets mentioned above were all posed to this hub category on May 31, 2016. No CVG)
 * This article was posted today, regarding capacity increases from CVG. It never uses the term hub (or even focus city, etc.). Also, It's in the "routes" section, not the "hubs" section. Granted, the routes section also contains articles about other hubs, but those cities are already well represented in the hubs section.
 * This stat sheet, cited several times in the article, doesn't mention CVG in the "key Hubs and Markets" section of the text or the table. The difference between a hub and a market is fuzzy in today's industry, but CVG doesn't appear to be considered as either based on this list.

I know it's still a grey area, and there have been a number of discussions of this topic on this page, as well as on other airline pages and wikiprojects. I don't think we have a good definition yet of what a hub is. But my understanding is that until we do, we go with what the airline says, and it looks to me like Delta is saying CVG isn't a hub.

Also: worth considering that we have RDU listed as a focus city, but it's not on the stat sheet, but LHR is on the stat sheet and has a hub fact sheet but is not in the article. ThunderBacon (talk) 19:17, 1 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Ok, I nobody said anything, so I went ahead with it. ThunderBacon (talk) 19:38, 6 February 2017 (UTC)


 * This has been stated many times, CVG is a hub, but not a key hub. Delta does not list CVG anywhere it talks about "KEY" hubs and markets, which CVG is not, its their 2nd smallest domestic hub, BOS is actually smaller. Delta's own route map lists CVG as a hub, Delta has never announced it was "dehubbing" CVG like Memphis, and Delta mentions CVG as one of its hubs on its fact sheet on the Delta News Hub. As far as the article, Delta actually included a "hub station" graphic with its article, I linked it below.† Its a small hub, but its still a hub in name and function. The schedule is heavily banked to allow for connections and they still operate a pretty significant amount of flights. They even just announced an increase in capacity! It may not be their 2nd largest hub anymore, but its still a hub. I updated the source on the page, they moved around the links on the Delta News Hub.
 * http://dl.fltmaps.com/en
 * http://www.delta.com/content/dam/delta-www/pdfs/route-maps/us-route-map.pdf
 * †https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3l2tviWAAEdBBq.jpg:large
 * http://news.delta.com/global-network (Fact Sheet)


 * As for LHR, its a "key market", not hub. RDU is debatable, but the source does quote a Delta executive stating RDU is a focus city. Stinger20 (talk) 01:11, 10 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your input. I'm inclined to agree with you, mostly based on my personal knowledge and some of the things you pointed out, so I'll leave the article as is. However, I still feel the sourcing is weak. If people who weren't as knowledgeable as us about the industry were writing the article from scratch, I doubt they'd include it. Re: the links you posted:
 * I don't love the route maps (for the purposes of wiki citations), especially the interactive one. They're hard to date, and I remember seeing MEM listed as a hub on there well after it was officially dropped.
 * I don't see a link from the article to the graphic you posted, but I could just be missing it. But assuming it isn't there, I think it's notable that I can't find it anywhere on delta's site. Not suggesting it's fake, just that they've chosen not to keep it up.
 * The Global network fact sheet is solid.


 * Number of flights and capacity increases don't necessarily indicate a hub. However, you make a good point about the banked schedule, which is hard to cite for the article but I think argues strongly for hub status. Also good point that it has never been officially "dehubbed" which, like you said, we know from MEM is something they would indeed do if they wanted to. So based on that, I'm ok to leave it, but I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for a more definitive source.


 * Re: LHR, the global network factsheet, which we're using to prove CVG is a hub, also lists London. So I'm not sure how to categorically differentiate between hub and key market based solely on that list. Several articles about LHR are filed under "hubs" on the news site. But I think it's mostly a Virgin hub and a Delta focus. ThunderBacon (talk) 16:34, 10 February 2017 (UTC)


 * ThunderBacon makes some good points about sourcing. I feel of course we should rely on what the airline says. I found this source from Delta, published last week. It lists Delta's key hubs and markets, as well as its "largest hub" Atlanta. For this reason, I believe no airport can be listed definitively as a hub except Atlanta. — Sunnya343&#9992; (háblame • my work) 04:11, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

New cabin PICTURES!!!
Can someone add the new pictures of the cabin that has been implemented in almost all 757, A319, A320

And of course, the beautiful and new cabin of the 737-900ER and A321!

thanks!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.151.60.204 (talk) 19:09, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Daily departures from hubs
The most cuurent info, per the Delta website, lists 455 daily departures from Detroit. The outdated chart in the Wikipedia entry lists 410. Madmarlon71 (talk) 13:35, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 April 2017
Please include Boston as a hub

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Berkshire Hathaway as parent company?
Hi, I think it is misleading to say Berkshire Hathaway is a parent company. While they own the largest amount of stock as a single investor, they are hardly a parent company. Parent companies tend to hold the majority (50.1% or more) of voting shares, which Berkshire Hathaway does not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.211.82 (talk) 02:57, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

LHR hub
Recently, Delta added LHR as a hub per the stated sources which is like CDG and AMS operated in conjunction with Virgin Atlantic. However, Virgin Atlantic does not operate a hub and spoke system and they only have bases. If LHR is a hub for DL then shouldn't LHR be a hub for Virgin Atlantic as well (even though the airline does not have "hubs")? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.85.118.142 (talk) 18:44, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Ann Coulter incident
I added the following:

Conservative writer Ann Coulter is tall, and she didn’t want to get deep vein thrombosis, a potentially fatal medical condition, from sitting in a cramped airline seat, so in July 2017, she chose to spend extra money in order to get extra legroom on her Delta Air Lines flight. After Coulter boarded the airplane, Delta made Coulter give up her prepaid seat. When Coulter asked why, the flight attendant’s answer was “I don’t know.” 28 hours after the incident, Delta had still not offered Coulter any other explanation for its actions.

Someone else removed it, and commented "extremely minor incident"

It would indeed be extremely minor, except for the fact that Delta refuses to offer an explanation for its actions. It is because of this that I believe it is notable enough to include.

What do others think?

Bk33725681 (talk) 21:28, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

I have restored the content, due to lack of any objection from anyone other than the one person who had deleted it. Bk33725681 (talk) 21:08, 23 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Not notable, minor incident, not encyclopaedic, not what Wikipedia is for. SempreVolando (talk) 06:13, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

CVG hub?
Cincinnati is not listed in this: http://news.delta.com/corporate-stats-and-facts

Is it still an official hub? Avman89 (talk) 23:58, 5 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Yes, it is still a hub for Delta. It is listed in multiple places:
 * http://news.delta.com/global-network
 * https://www.delta.com/content/dam/delta-www/pdfs/route-maps/us-route-map.pdf
 * http://dl.fltmaps.com/en


 * Also, here is the image from the Delta News Hub page that says "access denied": https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3l2tviWAAEdBBq.jpg:large


 * Another note is that DL never has dehubbed CVG, and in fact, they have been expanding flights recently.


 * A few secondary sources also agree that CVG is still a hub for Delta (2016/2017):
 * http://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2017/02/01/deltas-getting-growth-cvg/97348262/
 * https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2016/03/22/why-delta-has-seen-local-passengers-spike-at-cvg.html
 * Stinger 20 ( talk ) 03:33, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

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Delta Air Lines Accidents and Incidents
On 11/27/2016 at 17:48, I made a revision to Delta Flight 191 fatalities. It should be 136 fatalities,not 134 and 1 on the ground.Go to Flight 191 Wiki page(go to explanation near bottom of page)and Airsafe.com to verify this. On 7/31/1973, Delta Air Lines crashed at Logan Airport and one person died 4 1/2 months after the accident and that was included. 2 people died more than 30 days after the accident(Flight 191) and should have been included in the final death toll. Also,on August 14,1935, Delta Air Lines suffered their first fatal accident when a Stinson Model A (Flight 4) crashed 9 miles west of Gilmer, Texas, killing all 4 occupants and should be included in the Accidents and Incidents list. Go to the Aviation Safety Network Wikibase to verify this.2601:581:8500:949C:304C:CD3D:3958:6A95 (talk) 15:49, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Vandalism?
Is anyone else getting a redirect to a Youtube video about "Lode Radio Hour" when clicking any of the internal links in the article?Mirza Ahmed (talk) 04:04, 13 January 2018 (UTC)


 * My friend and I are also getting this problem, but the entire page links to the YouTube video. There's a transparent image overlaid on the article with a hyperlink to the YouTube video. --Alana Gilston (talk) 04:23, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

I have commented out all the external links section and this appears to have fixed the problem - I have never seen this before. I need to work out who to tell. Andrewgprout (talk) 04:39, 13 January 2018 (UTC) Has been fixed - so I have put the external links section back. Andrewgprout (talk) 04:53, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Hub at LHR
Delta's Global Network page lists LHR as a hub. This was also the page cited in the recently removed content. Delta also maintains a "Hub Station London" page on their website. I'm curious as to the motivation behind the choice to remove LHR as a listed Delta hub? Overturn 91 (talk) 03:29, 31 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Probably because it is not actually a "hub" operation as we understand it, if you were desperate you could fly somewhereusa-LHR-somewhereusa but it would not be a sane choice. The selling as a Hub is more to do with partner airliners rather than a Delta operation. MilborneOne (talk) 13:34, 31 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Disagree. Delta operates gates out of LHR and refers to LHR as a hub. Applying the same logic, Amsterdam also wouldn't be a hub as they don't fly anywhere intra-Europe. Like Overturn 91 said, it has "Hub Station London" on their own site. Motion to re-add LHR hub for DAL on this page. Iancrwebb (talk) 19:56, 10 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Amsterdam is not a Delta 'hub' either. Who in their right mind would fly (for example) from Atlanta to Boston via Amsterdam? The airline's own interpretation (read: marketing) of the term is irrelevant as it does not meet the wikipedia definition. SempreVolando (talk) 20:07, 10 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Okay so I did some digging and actually spoke with a fleet analyst at Delta about this. He has advised that they classify hubs as where they employee and operate a maintenance base for aircraft. In Delta's case, they operate TechOps maintenance bases with stationed engineers at Schiphol and Heathrow, have a presence in terminals and signage (beyond the "HEY WE FLY HERE CHOOSE US" signs), they maintain these as hubs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iancrwebb (talk • contribs) 20:55, 15 August 2017 (UTC)


 * In general (not specific to Delta), I think the best way to handle this is that we defer to the airline's classifications of "hub" and "focus city" when they actually operate routes to/from these airports other than to other hubs or as part of a multi-city flight (eg. Delta used to fly Atlanta-Amsterdam-Mumbai). In Delta's case, Heathrow and Schiphol are only served by routes from hubs (except Philadelphia at Heathrow and Newark & Orlando at Schiphol). These 1-2 flights to non-hubs aren't enough to classify Heathrow and Schiphol as "hubs". AHeneen (talk)

Whoever is in favour of keeping AMS, CDG, LHR as hubs for Delta on this page should follow though and amend the definition in Airline hub to add the line "or could refer to whichever airport an airline's marketing department calls a hub". Otherwise there is a serious inconsistency here - by no other definition are any of these three a Delta hub. Carolus m (talk) 06:28, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

No we should not "defer" to the airlines descriptions of a topic. Using that methodology would allow them to say they are the world's "best" airline. A hub has a defined descriptor where an airline has subsidiary carriers that operate connecting service. Using this standard definition means the following facts. Delta does not operate a Hub in AMS, CDG, or LHR because they do not operate connecting flights or have a subsidiary that does. However, Skyteam which is the alliance of which delta is a member does have connecting hub in those cities. The international cities should be referred to as an Alliance Hub. This maintains the consistency of definition across all companies. 2601:582:4105:60F4:11F5:2B13:920B:D5D4 (talk) 00:06, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Track Customer Incidences
As has been a common phenomenon lately with the airline industry on how disagreements with passengers, in some cases are handled by the airline staff, I was wondering if it would a good idea to add another section for each airline to track such passenger related incidences. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agoyal79 (talk • contribs) 22:30, 23 April 2018 (UTC)