Tag Archives: Delta Air Lines

The Charlotte Observer reports: A Delta Airlines plane with 101 people on board successfully landed without landing gear at Charlotte Douglas International Airport Wednesday morning, the airline said. Meanwhile, flight delays continued to grow throughout the afternoon as the airport and Delta worked to remove the aircraft from the runway that CLT has now closed. It remained closed as of …

San Antonio’s CBS affiliate reports: San Antonio International Airport officials are investigating after the death of an airline ground crew member. Firefighters and police officers responded to the incident at around 10:25 p.m. Friday night. The NTSB said Saturday the worker went into the engine of a Delta Airlines jet. “Delta Flight 1111 was taxiing to the gate, with one …

The Scotland Herald reports: A Delta Airlines flight was due to depart for John F Kennedy Airport on June 16, but was cancelled shortly before take-off. Passengers were moved on to other services, with a 61-year-old pilot arrested for being over the legal alcohol limit. The Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 sets the limit at 20 milligrammes of alcohol …

Salt Lake City’s ABC affiliate reports: Passengers aboard a Delta flight to Los Angeles came across a frightening scene Saturday when the plane’s emergency slide accidentally deployed inside the cabin, injuring a crew member. According to a Delta spokesperson, Delta flight 520 operating from New York to Los Angeles had to be diverted to Salt Lake City due to a …

Oklahoma City’s ABC affiliate reports: After a Delta Airlines flight was diverted to Oklahoma City on Thursday due to multiple people becoming ill on the plane, officials are continuing to investigate the cause of the sickness. The flight, en route to Atlanta from Los Angeles, stopped at the Will Rogers World Airport after officials said nine passengers complained about feeling …

Los Angeles’ ABC affiliate reports: A passenger on a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Seattle was detained Saturday for allegedly opening an emergency exit door, moments before the plane was set to take off. The incident happened at around 10 a.m. at the Los Angeles International Airport. In a statement sent to Eyewitness News, Delta said the passenger opened …

The Hill reports: Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian on Friday urged Congress to boost funding for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) following this week’s computer system outage that grounded U.S. flights for hours. Bastian said the FAA meltdown, which led to more than 10,000 delays on Wednesday, was “unacceptable” but placed blame on lawmakers for not prioritizing the agency. …

CNN reports: An employment discrimination lawsuit filed by a former Delta Air Lines flight attendant says she was fired for posting an image of former President Donald Trump wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood on her personal Facebook page. The plaintiff, Leondra Taylor, who is Black, admitted she posted a cartoon image on her personal Facebook page. The image was …

The Daily Beast reports: A first-class passenger flying home from Atlanta became enraged with a flight attendant who refused to continue serving the man alcohol, calling him a “fag” and a “queer” before throwing a glass of ice at him and hitting him with an onboard telephone, according to an FBI affidavit obtained first by The Daily Beast. Christopher Alexander …

Reuters reports: Delta Air Lines said on Wednesday it plans to restore flight privileges to about 2,000 customers who were barred from flights after failing to comply with mask rules. The Biden administration on Monday said it would no longer enforce a U.S. mask mandate on public transportation and airlines after a federal judge struck down the directive as unlawful. …

The Boarding Group reports: A woman was arrested at the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport on Friday at gate C55, where a Delta Airlines flight destined for Columbia, South Carolina, was set to depart. At one point, according to the man recording the video, she is alleged to have called a security guard the n-word. The man recording the video …

Via press release from Delta Air Lines: Delta has withdrawn our codeshare services operated in conjunction with Russian national airline, Aeroflot, effective immediately. We have removed our code from Aeroflot-operated services beyond Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport and removed Aeroflot’s code from Delta-operated services from Los Angeles and New York-JFK. Accommodations will be made for customers affected by these changes. Delta does …

The New York Daily News reports: A trio of unruly would-be passengers at John F. Kennedy Airport viciously beat down two Delta Air Lines employees after a flight crew decided they were too drunk and belligerent to board a flight to Puerto Rico, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Long Island residents Jordan Nixon, 21, Janessa Torres, 21, and Johanna Zavala, 44, …

The Daily Mail reports: Tis the season to deck fellow travelers in the aisle of your holiday flight. A ‘loud, drunken’ passenger who was reportedly violating mask mandates on a red-eye Delta flight from Los Angeles to Memphis engaged in little impromptu MMA with a fellow traveler, a newly released video on TMZ shows. The man in blue, who apparently …

The Hill reports: More than 100 flights that were scheduled for Christmas Eve have been canceled by United Airlines as the company grapples with the spread of the omicron variant, the airline confirmed on Thursday. A spokesperson for United said that “we’re seeing about 120 cancellations planned for Friday.” Delta Air Lines also announced on Thursday that it would be …

ABC News reports: An unruly passenger on a Delta flight in December is now facing the largest proposed fine from the Federal Aviation Administration this year — a whopping $52,500. According to the agency, the passenger tried to open the cockpit door on the flight from Honolulu to Seattle before striking a flight attendant in the face and pushing them …

CNBC reports: Delta Air Lines on Tuesday posted another multibillion-dollar net loss after the coronavirus pandemic roiled what is usually the peak travel period of the year. The carrier warned it could take years to recover. Kicking off third-quarter reporting for the beleaguered airline sector, Delta said its net loss was $5.4 billion in the third quarter, compared with a …

NBC News reports: A passenger aboard a Delta flight tried to open the doors of the plane mid-flight, prompting the pilot to declare an emergency, according to live air traffic control transmission ATC.net. The plane has landed safely at LaGuardia Airport. According to traffic control, the emotionally disturbed passenger tried to open the “forward service door” on the Delta 5935 …

The Washington Post reports: Falling in love on an airplane is the kind of story you only ever hear in a bar or see in a Lifetime movie. But for a brief time this winter, Delta Air Lines wanted to help passengers make it a reality — by gently nudging them to hit on other passengers. With cocktail napkins. “Be …

CNN reports: A traveler carrying a firearm boarded a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and flew to Tokyo Narita International Airport on January 3, according to a statement from the Transportation Security Administration. “TSA has determined standard procedures were not followed and a passenger did in fact pass through a standard screening TSA checkpoint with a …