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CEO Gets Huge Pay Boost As His Company's Stock Plunges

AP | Posted 04.28.2012

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ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines Inc.'s chief executive, Richard Anderson, received a 10 percent raise in his pay package in 2011, a year when the company's...

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High School Students Endure Delta Emergency Landing

AP | Posted 04.23.2012

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Dozens of students from Minneapolis Southwest High School were on board a Delta flight from New York when one of the pilots decla...

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Delta Pulls Flight Attendant From Flight For Acting 'Erratically'

AP | Posted 04.04.2012

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Delta Airlines says it has pulled a flight attendant from a Buffalo, N.Y.-to-Atlanta flight because a security screener thought he wa...

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Flight Attendant Recalls In-Flight Birth

Posted 04.04.2012

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A scared first-time mom gave birth on a Delta flight from an undisclosed location in Africa to Atlanta at 3am, 36,000 feet above ground. Three hour...

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Breastfeeding Passenger Settles Airline Lawsuit

AP | LISA RATHKE | Posted 05.16.2012

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MONTPELIER, Vt. -- A woman who was ordered off an airplane in Vermont for refusing to cover herself up while breast-feeding her child has reached a se...

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WATCH: Jet Rolls Off Taxiway At Atlanta Airport

AP | Posted 05.13.2012

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ATLANTA — Cranes are moving a jet that rolled off a taxiway and was significantly damaged at the world's busiest airport in Atlanta. Delta Air ...

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Drunk Flight Attendant Causes Flight Cancellation

Posted 02.23.2012

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A female flight attendant for Pinnacle Airlines (Delta Connection) was so drunk on a flight over the weekend that she was taken off the plane. Mary...

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PHOTOS: What's Inside First-Class Amenity Kits?

Conde Nast Traveler | Posted 04.19.2012

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One of the best parts about flying in the front of the plane is that the airlines dole out amenity kits packed with all those little things that make long-haul flights more comfortable

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Carmo Family's Bodies Being Flown To Brazil

AP | Posted 04.18.2012

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ATLANTA — Bodies of the five Georgians killed in a Florida highway crash are being flown to Brazil for burial. A Delta Air Lines spokesman tell...

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Delta Reroutes Flights Over Solar Storm

Posted 01.25.2012

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UPDATE, 1/25: A Delta spokesman told Reuters that the flight re-routing has added roughly 15 minutes to flights. United confirmed it re-routed one...

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'Unruly' German Couple Ask For Champagne, Get Flight Diverted

AP | Posted 01.17.2012

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ATLANTA -- Officials say a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Costa Rica was diverted to Tampa, Fla., on Sunday evening after a couple from German...

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Man Sues For Injuries Sustained In 2009 Underwear Bomber Attack

AP | Posted 12.22.2011

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NEW YORK -- A New York man has sued two airlines for $10 million in damages for injuries he says he incurred when he jumped on a Nigerian man who trie...

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Delta's Big Expansion

AP | SAMANTHA BOMKAMP and JOSHUA FREED | Posted 02.15.2012

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NEW YORK — Delta Air Lines Inc. plans a massive flight expansion out of New York's LaGuardia airport, hoping to improve its competitive edge aga...

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Stowaway Freed On 'Supervised Release'

AP | By GREG RISLING | Posted 11.29.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- A man convicted of getting a free ride from New York to Los Angeles using an expired boarding pass with someone else's name on it will ...

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Jaktogo Offers Fliers Choice Between Baggage Fees And Dignity

Posted 11.16.2011

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Some ideas are so perfect, so brilliant in their simplicity and practicality they engender a healthy respect for human ingenuity. Jaktogo is not one o...

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Key Senator Says Another FAA Shutdown Possible

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 01.14.2012

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WASHINGTON — Another shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration is possible because lawmakers haven't resolved a labor issue that's holding...

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WATCH: Man Proposes To Girlfriend Mid-Flight

Posted 12.24.2011

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It's happened again: A couple who met on board a Delta flight in 2010 got engaged over the weekend on the same LaGuardia-bound flight. Arvin Shandi...

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'Unruly' Passenger Arrested

AP | Posted 12.04.2011

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DETROIT -- Delta Air Lines says federal officials arrested a man who became disruptive on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Airline spokeswoman Sus...

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Delta Passenger Investigated, Denied Entry To U.S.

Posted 11.30.2011

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UPDATE: 10/1: The organization that organized Stewart's American tour issued a press release with the following statement: On September 29, St...

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After More Than 40 Years On The Run, Fugitive Behind 1972 Airplane Hijacking Caught In Portugal

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 11.27.2011

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NEWARK, N.J. — A 1970s militant who escaped from a murder sentence in New Jersey and carried out one of the most brazen hijackings in U.S. histo...

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Armrest Elbow Quarrel Leads To Threat

AP | Posted 11.21.2011

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A 60-year-old Salt Lake City man faces federal felony charges after authorities say he threatened a seatmate on a Las Vegas-bound flight, the Associat...

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Delta Commits To Nondiscrimination In Wake Of Religious Controversy

Posted 10.24.2011

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A senior executive for Delta Air Lines has issued a written commitment that the company will not in any circumstance seek to know the religious affili...

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Department Of Transportation Expands Airline Passenger Protections

Kate Hanni | Posted 10.24.2011

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Kate Hanni

For decades, the commercial airlines have successfully managed to convince the DOT that they should police themselves when it comes to how they treat passengers--essentially preventing any meaningful reforms.

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Myths About Frequent Flyer Miles And Points

Brian Kelly | Posted 10.10.2011

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Brian Kelly

Over the last several years I've used frequent flyer miles to travel the globe and explore incredible new places. In the course of my wanderings I've discovered that there are a lot of misconceptions around frequent flyer and airline points programs.

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Loose Bat Causes Quite The Stir On Flight

AOL Travel News | Posted 10.09.2011

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Passengers on a Georgia-bound Delta plane got quite the surprise Friday when a bat started flying about the cabin. One passenger, who was asleep du...

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