Delta Airlines Inc

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Call sign is Delta, IATA Code is DL,ICAO code is DAL. Formed as Huff Daland Dusters, Incorporated, an aerial crop dusting operation, on May 30, 1924, in Macon, Georgia, the company moved to Monroe, Louisiana in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, in 1925, and began acting as a passenger airline in late 1929. Collett E. Woolman purchased the company on September 13, 1928, and renamed it Delta Air Service, with headquarters in Monroe. In the ensuing decades, Delta grew through the addition of routes and the acquisition of other airlines. It transitioned from propeller planes to jets in the 1970s, and entered international competition to Europe in the 1970s and across the Pacific in the 1980s.

On October 29, 2008, Delta completed its merger with Northwest Airlines to form the world's largest commercial carrier. In February 2009, the airline began consolidating gates and ticket counters at airports where both Delta and Northwest operate. The consolidation was completed February 2010. On December 31, 2009, the Federal Aviation Administration granted Delta's request to allow Delta and Northwest to operate under a single operating certificate.

Now Delta Air Lines, Inc. (Delta) provides scheduled air transportation for passengers and cargo throughout the United States, and around the world. The Company's route network is centered on the hub system it operate at airports in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York-JFK, Salt Lake City, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Amsterdam and Tokyo-Narita. The hub operations include flights, which gather and distribute traffic from markets in the geographic region surrounding the hub to domestic and international cities and to other hubs. The network is supported by a fleet of aircraft, which is varied in terms of size and capabilities. On December 31, 2009, the Company's wholly owned subsidiary Northwest Airlines, Inc. (NWA) merged with and into Delta. The wholly owned subsidiary of the Company is Northwest Airlines Corporation (Northwest). In July 2010, Pinnacle Airlines Corp. acquired Mesaba Aviation, Inc. from Delta Air Lines. Listed in New York Stock Exchange on April 26,2007. P/E ratio is 21.04, EPS is 0.65 and shares outstanding is 788,920,000.