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Since 2013, Delta has been working to reduce the age of its fleet by purchasing or leasing newly built aircraft or newer model used aircraft. [citation needed] Since launching the effort, Delta has preferred to purchase aircraft from Airbus, a major change for the company which had been a loyal customer of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (which merged with Boeing in 1997).
Delta Air Lines aircraft parked on a taxiway at Kansas City International Airport. As of January 2025, the Delta Air Lines fleet consists of 986 mainline aircraft, making it the second largest commercial airline fleet in the world, after United Airlines. [63] [64] [65] Delta Air Lines operates a fleet manufactured by Airbus and Boeing. [66]
According to the website Airfleets.net, the average fleet age for British Airways is 13 years and six months. ... The giant US airline Delta operates some of the oldest aircraft in the skies ...
Delta Air Lines is the overall largest 757 operator, with a 757-200 shown here. A Boeing 757-200SF of FedEx Express, the variant's largest single operator. As of 2018, the largest 757 operators were Delta Air Lines, FedEx Express and United Airlines; Delta Air Lines also was the largest overall, with a 757 fleet of 127 aircraft.
Professionally-managed archives of records and artifacts related to Delta and its related airlines. An aviation reference library. Various temporary exhibits. A 1975 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50, N675MC. [25] At the time of its retirement in 2013, it was the oldest aircraft in the Delta fleet. Replica of the first Delta station in Monroe, Louisiana.
From fleet age to pilot skill, safety practices, fleet size, and number of incidents, their scores were identical.” The world's safest full-service airlines for 2025 Air New Zealand
Delta Air Lines is the largest operator of the 717, flying over 70 percent of all in-service jets as of 2024. In 2013, Delta began leasing the entire fleet of 88 jets previously operated by AirTran Airways from Southwest Airlines , who had purchased AirTran, but wanted to preserve its all-Boeing 737 fleet rather than taking on another class of ...
A Northwest Airlines Airbus A330-300, shortly before the merger with Delta in 2008. Delta Air Lines as it exists today is the result of numerous mergers over its history. Predecessor carriers include: Chicago and Southern Air Lines (formed in 1933, merged into Delta in 1953). [24]