In an effort to preserve its bottom line, Delta Air Lines is getting creative. The Atlanta-based company has been pulling ...

In an effort to equip older U.S. aircraft with new engines and to sidestep U.S. tariffs on imports from Europe, Delta Air ...

Delta Flies New Route to Profits: Older Jets. By . Susan Carey. Share. Resize. ATLANTA—A jetliner parked in a cavernous hangar here boasts a gleaming paint job, 160 pristine blue leather seats ...

Delta's fleet included 44 Boeing 767-300 planes, including the one that lost the slide, that on average were 28 years old. AP The Delta emergency slide was found six miles Southwest of JFK airport.

Some of the retiring jets are around 30 years old. Delta started flying the MD-88s in 1988 and the MD-90s in 1995.. Carl Nordin, the captain at the controls of the final MD-88 flight, is ...

Earlier this year, the carrier flew new Airbus long-haul jets through Japan before bringing them to the US to skirt import ...

Delta Air Lines is adding dozens of used jets to its fleet to replace older and less efficient planes. Atlanta-based Delta is buying 29 used Boeing 737-900ER jets from funds managed by private ...

Delta Air Lines Inc. will pare its fleet of Boeing Co. 717 jets by at least half over the next year, continuing to cull older, more costly planes amid the collapse in demand caused by the ...

Delta Air Lines Inc. began adding a new variant of Boeing Co.’s 737 aircraft and a batch of used Boeing 717s, as the company uses the most diverse fleet in the U.S. industry to reduce operating ...

After only a few years without the Delta Private Jets brand, Delta would reacquire its old company, injecting around $0.5 billion into Wheels Up. In exchange, ...