Operations

Led by in-house team of aviation meteorologists, Delta is closely monitoring track of Hurricane Milton.

Delta is the first U.S. commercial operator to receive FAA Certificate Management Office concurrence for our plans to use these drones for maintenance inspections across our fleet.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian shared the following message Wednesday morning as the airline continues to recover from the impact of last week's CrowdStrike outage.

Delta is continuously monitoring the security situation in Tel Aviv and updating its service between Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) and New York, Atlanta and Boston on an ongoing basis.

Delta is expecting nearly 9 million customers from Dec. 21-Jan. 7 as the airline builds on a strong November and Thanksgiving holiday travel period.

Final numbers for the full holiday period of Nov. 17-28 are still pending**. However, from Friday, Nov. 17, through Sunday, Nov. 26, Delta carried more than 5.3 million customers on more than 43,000 flights systemwide.

Official Delta projections put the total estimated customer count between 6.2 million and 6.4 million from Friday, Nov. 17-Tuesday, Nov. 28 – averaging 515,000-530,000 customers a day.

Delta has completed three special repatriation flights this week from Athens, Greece, to New York to support customers returning to the U.S. from Israel. Regular service between Athens and the U.S. continues.

Delta has extended a travel waiver for all customers with travel booked to/from Tel Aviv, and is notifying customers of refund option and cancelations.

Delta’s hub at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport is “home of the world’s best deicers.” If the winter months are their regular season, summer is time for boot camp – getting trained and ready for the winter ahead.

Warren Weston, one of Delta’s lead meteorologists, gives an inside look at every role Delta’s in-house meteorology team plays, from updating the Weather Information Tool and helping flight crews avoid turbulence to forecasting the weather both around major airports and up to 40,000 feet.

Nearly three dozen Delta frontline employees made a trip to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on June 13 to advocate for the modernization of the federal perimeter rule at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport.

Operations in Detroit, Boston and New York continue to face delays and schedule reductions because of wind, frozen precipitation and icing conditions.

For nearly a week, Delta people have managed challenges and constraints brought on by historic winter weather across most of the U.S.

In preparation for a planned industrial action in Belgium, Delta and its joint venture partner KLM have issued a travel waiver for all customers traveling to and from Brussels.

Due to forecasted weather in the Rockies and Northern Plains, Delta has issued a travel waiver for those who may be impacted effective December 12 – 13, 2022.

Customers with last-minute changes can stand by for an alternate flight for free starting Aug. 4.