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Delta Air Lines
| October 8, 1889 |
Collett Everman Woolman, founder of Delta Air Lines, is born in Bloomington, Indiana
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| May 30, 1924 |
C. E. Woolman to become vice president of Huff Daland Dusters, Macon, Georgia.
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City of Macon, Georgia |
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| March 1, 1925 |
(circa) Huff Daland moves to Monroe, Louisiana
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| June 17, 1929 |
Delta Air Services inaugural flight from Dallas, Texas to Jackson, Mississippi, including a stop at Monroe, where the company was headquartered. The 427-mile flight was completed in about 5 hours
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| June 12, 1930 |
Delta Air Lines begin regularly scheduled service to Atlanta from Dallas, Texas
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| December 0, 1934 |
Woolman resigns from Delta board
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| July 4, 1934 |
Delta begins air mail service from Charleston to Fort Worth, including Atlanta, Augusta and other stops in Georgia.
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| May 5, 1938 |
C. E. Woolman elected to board, appointed vice president and general operations manager
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| December 15, 1940 |
Delta adopts the slogan "Airline of the South"
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| January 27, 1941 |
Delta announces that Atlanta will be the home to its fleet
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| March 1, 1941 |
Delta moves its operations to Atlanta to better serve its two routes, Atlanta to Cincinnati and Atlanta to Savannah
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| October 29, 1945 |
C. E. Woolman named president of Delta Air Lines
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| October 29, 1945 |
C. E. Woolman named president of Delta Air Lines
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| May 1, 1953 |
Delta merges with Chicago and Southern to expand routes in Midwest
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| May 23, 1960 |
The crash of a Delta Air Lines Convair CV-880 during a training flight at Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta kills 4 people
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| November 1, 1965 |
C. E. Woolman named Chairman of Delta Air Lines
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| September 11, 1966 |
Delta Chairman of the Board C. E. Woolman dies
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| December 0, 1968 |
Delta adopts the slogan "Delta is ready when you are"
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| August 1, 1972 |
Northeast Airlines merged with Delta Airlines.
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| June 20, 1979 |
Willie Foster Sellers is arrested at a Delta Frieght dock in Atlanta, Georgia. He had been one of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted
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| August 2, 1985 |
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes while attempting to land at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport. The original impact was in an empty field, but the plane remained intact and "bounced" onto a 6-lane highway, then crashing into a pair of water tanks. 136 out of 167 passengers died. |
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| December 0, 1987 |
Delta adopts the slogan "We love to fly, and it shows"
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| April 1, 1987 |
Western Air is merged with Delta Airlines
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| August 31, 1988 |
Delta Flight 1141 crashes during take-off at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport |
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| August 9, 1991 |
Delta Airlines purchases international routes from bankrupt Pan Am. This includes the northeastern shuttle, all north Atlantic routes and the Frankfurt, Germany hub. Pan Am abandons these routes during the next six months
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| August 14, 1997 |
Leo F. Mullin is elected President and CEO of Delta Airlines
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| March 22, 1999 |
Delta Air Lines acquires Atlanta-based ASA
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| June 16, 2004 |
Delta Air CEO Gerald Grinstein said Delta "canot survive in its current form" as fares continue to decrease and oil prices rise. |
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| November 10, 2004 |
Delta pilots voted to accept a pay cut in exchange for a right to buy up to 15 percent of Delta stock as the company struggled to avoid bankruptcy. |
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| September 14, 2005 |
Delta Air Lines (DAL) files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy |
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| April 15, 2008 |
Delta annouces its intention to merge with Northwest Airlines |
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| October 29, 2008 |
Delta completes its acquisition of Northwest Airlines, pending judicial review |
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