Delta Airlines

Delta Airlines

Delta Air Lines is one of the world’s largest airlines by any measure you wish to take. It has the world’s largest range geographically covering 5 continents with over 300 destinations in over 50 countries including being the only mainstream US carrier currently flying to Africa including Accra, Lagos, Dakar and Johannesburg. In addition new direct services from Atlanta to Shanghai (China) and Mumbai (India) were inaugarated in 2008.

Flights on Delta Air Lines

Why are we including Delta Air Lines in our Alternative Airlines listing, when it is clearly one of the world’s major carriers rather than an "Alternative " ? Well, we are celebrating this American icon’s emergence from the ubiquitous Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedure. This was announced yesterday on the 26th April 2007 after almost two years of painful restructuring including 6000 job cuts.

Alternative Airlines is all about increasing your choice of airlines and we applaud this giant of the skies for its survival. Too many good airlines have failed over the last decade and Delta remains a very efficient, effective and enjoyable provider of flights for almost 120,000,000 passengers. (2005 figure).

Delta is a major Boeing customer with over 400 aircraft of many different types of Boeings from 737’s to 777’s.