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DELTA AIR LINES RESEARCH

Lemeka Fields
Michael Green
Alana Ireland
Justin Latimore

MGNT 3165-1
June 13, 2012

DELTA AIRLINES RESEARCH BY:
Fields, Lameka N. Green, Michael A. Ireland, Alana. Latimore, Justin
Abstract
Delta Air Linesheadquartered in Atlanta Georgia, in the United States. Delta Airlines operates extensive domestic and international network serving all continents except Antarctica. Delta is the sixth-oldest operating airline by foundation date, and the oldest airline still operating in the United States. Delta Air Lines is one of the four founding members of the Sky team airline alliance, the other three being Korean Air France Air andAeromexico. The loyalty program for Delta Air Lines is Sky Miles. Delta Air Lines is the World’s largest airlines in terms of fleet size, the world’s second-largest airlines in terms of revenue passenger-kilometers flown, and the world’s largest airlines in terms of scheduled passenger traffic.

Delta Airlines is an airlines company that serves over 150 million customers each year and offer service to 341 destinations in 61 countries including the United States (Delta, 2012). The headquarters is in Atlanta, Georgia and is the one of the oldest airline still operating in the United States. One of the company’s largest hubs (a transfer destination at an airport for passengers to go to catch their flight if their flight they are attending is not direct) is located at their headquarters site of Atlanta at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (Delta, 2012). Delta has a variety of hubs all around the country such as in New York City with the John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport in the boroughs of Queens and the internationally (Delta, 2012). The airline company has the frequent flier program called “SkyMiles” in which gives a person an X amount of points on the Delta Airlines credit card every time on a flight using the card. The company encourages its



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