Delta Air Lines

A Delta Air Lines employee has been shot dead in a private staff parking lot on the outskirts of Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International airport a spokesperson for the airline and the local police department confirmed.  The incident happened on Sunday evening,…

The Department of Transport (DOT) has fined Delta Air Lines $50,000 over a 2016 incident in which two Muslim passengers were offloaded from an international flight because of their perceived “suspicious behavior”.  Delta, which was also ordered to cease and…

Delta Air Lines announced a full-year pre-tax income of $6.2 billion on Tuesday morning, paving the way for a record profit-sharing bonus of $1.6 billion to be shared out amongst the Atlanta-based carrier’s 90,000 employees.  Ed Bastian, the airline’s chief…

Story Highlights More than 500 Delta Air Lines employees file a class-action lawsuit against uniform manufacturer Claim chemicals used in the uniforms have caused severe allergic reactions The lawsuit is calling on a full recall from over 64,000 uniformed employees…

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has opened an investigation after an emergency evacuation slide fell from a Delta Air Lines aircraft and landed in the back garden of a house in the Massachusetts town of Milton.  Thankfully, no one was…

Several days ago, Delta Air Lines was celebrating the career of one of its longest-serving but recently retired flight attendants who had previously worked for Pan Am.  But now, the Atlanta-based airline is being accused of trying to get rid…

At least 943 Delta Air Lines employees have allegedly made formal complaints about suffering adverse skin reactions to a designer uniform introduced by the airline last June.  The complaints, whch range from painful itchy rashes, hives, shortness of breath and…

Could Cecile Beck ever have known that her career as a flight attendant would last a whole six decades of her life?  The world was certainly a very different place in 1959 when Cecile was hired as what was known…

In an emotional Instagram post, the American fashion designer Zac Posen has announced he will be shuttering his namesake label House of Z.  Posen took to the social media site on Friday to share the news, while Vogue reports the…

This could get very interesting… while Delta Air Lines is currently the largest and only mainline airline in the United States not to have unionized flight attendants, that could all change after America’s largest flight attendant union announced it’s support…

The director of a new film about two High School best friends on the night before their graduation has hit out at Delta Air Lines after it was revealed the airline had cut a lesbian love scene in an edited…

Delta Air Lines has expressed its sadness of learning the news that one of its very first flight attendants has died at the grand old age of 103.  When the then 24-year old Sybil Peacock Harmon was hired by Delta…

Delta Air Lines says it plans to hire at least 6,000 new employees next year after being “caught off-guard” by rapid growth during the first nine months of 2019 as well as a series of weather events that have heaped…

Last year, Delta Air Lines made a series of pretty significant changes to its policy regarding the carriage of service animals including the controversial category of Emotional Support Animals (ESA’s).  The first changes came in March 2018 as part of…

On 3rd October 2018, a Bill was passed into law that was meant to significantly improve the amount of rest that flight attendants enjoy between flights.  That fatigue-busting upgrade should have been implemented within 30-days of the law being introduced…

Ed Bastian, chief executive of Delta Air Lines has admitted that an “intense year” has led to a “particularly long, hard summer” that has “put a strain on everyone and stressed our people and resources”.  Bastian concluded that “dedication and…

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines has confirmed it will be closing its flight attendant base in Tokyo with the possibility of job losses.  The airline says though that it hopes it can transfer many of the affected staffers to other customer…

Perhaps supermodel Naomi Campbell was right – Last week, the businesswoman who became one of the world’s most sought after fashion models in the 1990’s revealed her pre-flight cleaning ritual which involved latex gloves and a very large pack of…

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines has faced a fair amount of flack over the last week after the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) leaked a series of internal union-busting adverts that had been displayed in Delta’s workrooms.  The…

Flight attendants and ramp workers at Delta Air Lines have an important question to ask themselves – could joining a trade union improve their pay and conditions or make them worse off?  This isn’t a new question – the fight…

Potential U.S. Presidential nominee, Senator Bernie Sanders has written an open letter to Delta’s chief executive, Ed Bastian decrying the airline’s treatment of employees and union-busting activities.  The letter, which was co-signed by eight other senators, comes less than a…

Of the Big Three U.S. airlines, Delta is generally considered to offer the best service.  Its employees seem to be more engaged and service focused and in return, they get their share of one of the biggest profit-sharing bonuses in…

Delta Air Lines has been accused of being the primary voice in lobbying against the implementation of a new minimum rest rule for U.S.-based flight attendants.  Last October, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 which not…

Painful itchy rashes, hives, shortness of breath and itchy sore eyes – they are just some of the symptoms that have been linked to the new Delta Air Lines uniform which was rolled out to more than 64,000 uniformed employees…

Are Delta’s ‘Passport Plum’ uniforms causing the same kind of painful reactions as those suffered by flight attendants and ground staff at American Airlines?  Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines rolled out its new uniform to over 64,000 uniformed employees last May…

As profit sharing bonuses go, Delta Air Lines once again stormed ahead of the pack, surpassing every other major U.S.-based airline in its generosity for a good job well done.  The Atlanta-based airline recently announced it would pay out $1.3…

Delta Air Lines is facing criticism over a new staff memo which outlines a “sickness philosophy” rather than a sickness policy.  It might not seem like a big difference, perhaps even just semantics, but the IAM union which is fighting…

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines plans to eliminate 12 million plastic stirrers and a whopping 170 million plastic straws which are used annually onboard its aircraft and in its premium lounges.  The airline announced the plan as part of a major…

Just over a week ago, we reported on the pressure that a number of international airlines had received from Chinese authorities over the way they referred to Taiwan on their websites.  China’s civil aviation authority wrote to around 30 airlines…

Yesterday, we shared a video about Elly, a long-serving member of cabin crew at Etihad Airways who was actually one of the very first flight attendants to join the Abu Dhabi-based airline some 15-years ago.  But Etihad is a mere…

Just over a week after Delta Air Lines launched its long-awaited and very distinctive new uniform and the carrier has already had to make some urgent changes due to staff complaints.  The problems mean Delta joins the likes of American…

Delta Air Lines has been celebrating the launch of its brand new Zac Posen-designed uniform in a fairly big way.  The airline says it took around three years from concept to launch, with all 60,000 uniformed Delta employees making the…

What does it take to design a brand new uniform for over 64,000 employees?  That’s an answer that Ekrem Dimbiloglu, the Director of the New Uniform Program at Delta Air Lines can answer only too well.  Over the last three…

More than 60,000 employees at Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines might be looking forward to wearing a brand new uniform on 29th March but sources from within the company suggest many of them, including flight attendants, aren’t quite so pleased with…

Flight attendants at Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines work at one of the few U.S. airlines that don’t yet have official union representation – in spite of a high profile union campaign.  But now a spat has broken out between the…

Delta Air Lines has come under fire for a new social media policy which has been described as both “extensive” and “broadly written” with concerns the rules could “be misinterpreted to restrict lawful activities”.  The newly issued policy by the…