Delta Air Lines

Delta Air Lines is a U.S. passenger and cargo airline headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Its 2025 Form 10-K identifies Delta Air Lines, Inc. as a Delaware corporation with principal executive offices at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport, and describes a business subject to U.S. and foreign route authorities, bilateral aviation agreements, and the regulatory requirements of the markets it serves. [1]

Delta traces its corporate roots to Huff Daland Dusters, which was incorporated in 1925 as an aerial agricultural company. In 1928, C.E. Woolman led the purchase of that business and it was renamed Delta Air Service for the Mississippi Delta region; Delta operated its first passenger flight in 1929 between Dallas and Jackson with stops in Shreveport and Monroe. [2]

The airline’s current operating scale is global. Delta says it has approximately 100,000 employees, operates up to 5,500 daily Delta and Delta Connection flights to more than 300 destinations on six continents, and served more than 200 million customers in 2025. Its largest hub is Atlanta, and its listed hubs and key markets include Amsterdam, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis–St. Paul, New York, Paris, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Seoul, and Tokyo. [3]

Delta’s network combines its own flights with alliance and joint-venture relationships. The company identifies itself as a founding member of SkyTeam and lists strategic partnerships with Aeromexico, Air France-KLM, China Eastern, Korean Air, LATAM, Virgin Atlantic, and WestJet; its fact sheet separately identifies joint-venture or cooperation arrangements with several of those carriers. Delta Cargo also transports pharmaceuticals, transplant organs, fresh flowers, seasonal produce, and other freight, while the airline is extending fast, free Wi-Fi across its fleet. [3]

Those relationships explain why Delta appears in a database that tracks cross-border corporate cooperation. The airline is not simply a point-to-point carrier: its commercial model includes passenger service, cargo, loyalty, airport hubs, alliance participation, and deeper cooperation with selected foreign airlines. The precise legal party can vary between Delta Air Lines, an affiliated company, a joint venture, or an alliance arrangement, so partnership records should be read at the entity level stated in the underlying agreement. [1] [3]