Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines is threading a needle: defending its DEI initiatives as merit-based “people initiatives” that are core to its bus

Delta Air Lines , a major airline operating flights in the United States and beyond, is currently the world's largest airline by revenue, with a 2024 gross revenue of $61.6 billion. The carrier, the seventh-oldest worldwide and oldest airline in the United States today,

Two separate Delta widebody flights were disrupted in one day due to the detection of fumes onboard leading to emergency landings.

Delta Air Lines and United Airlines have each filed applications to the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) seeking to alter their operations between the U.S. and South Africa to better match seasonal demand.

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines is offering $30,000 to every passenger on board a flight that crash landed in Toronto earlier this week, ABC News has learned. The flight, which left Minneapolis for Toronto Pearson International Airport, had 80 people on board and all were evacuated. Some 76 people were passengers and four were crew members.

Delta Air Lines is offering to pay $30,000 to each passenger of Delta Connection Flight 4819, which crashed while landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon. The Atlanta-based airline confirmed the amount Wednesday afternoon.

DEI is about talent, and that’s been our focus,” Delta Chief External Affairs Officer Peter Carter said on an earnings call last month.

A Delta Air Lines flight had to return to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after the flight crew reported a “haze” inside the plane.