Pending Merge Between Delta and Nothwest
Delta’s Corporate Landscape
Delta Airlines was not always the expansive corporation it is today, it actually had very meager beginnings. Delta was founded in Macon, Georgia under the name Huff Daland Dusters as an aerial crop dusting company. In 1928 C.E. Woolman purchased Huff Daland Dusters and was renamed Delta Air Service. Through the years of 1934 – 1970 Delta experienced massive growth from a meager crop duster to a fully functioning mail carrier, and commercial transport for the U.S. and abroad.
Today Delta is an international and domestic network which flies to over 332 locations across five continents, and 57 countries. Delta’s current service offering is the availability to fly to more destinations than any other airline worldwide. Delta holds the title of being the second largest airline in the world which caters to approximately 119 million customers per year. From a passenger miles revenue standpoint the airline is ranked the third largest in the world, sixth overall for total operating revenue.
For most airlines September 11, 2001 brought significant change upon the entire airline industry. When nineteen terrorists high jacked four separate airplanes on that infamous morning, they ravaged fear through the minds of all Americans. Before that morning the only fear of flight was that of airline malfunction, the thought of becoming a moving bomb never would have crossed the minds of airline passengers. It is hard to believe that the airlines were capable of recovery after the events that transpired on that infamous day. Massive inspections, long waits and an overabundance of regulations that now take place to ensure safety have not stopped the consumers. There is a strengthened pos ...