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Running head: Week 8 Assignment 1
Delta Air Lines Company
Collett E. Woolman and the B. R. Coad founded Delta Air Lines Company as Delta Air
Service in 1928. The slogan of the enterprise was “Keep Climbing.” The company’s headquarters
is in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It traded as DAL on NYSE. The current CEO of the company is
Richard H. Anderson (Nikolay et al., 2013). In 2000, the corporation initiated a change of its
three engine planes to two engine planes to reduce the expenses of the fuel. Now, the company
uses only the two engine planes with an exception of Boeing747 of the Northwest Airlines. In
2004, Delta Air Lines made re structuration known as The Clock Work Operation, which cuts the
workforce and even add about 100 flights from Atlanta. In addition, on 31 Jan. 2005, it locked
hub, locate in the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. However, on 14 September same year,
there was a declaration of the company about bankruptcy, and it had $20.5 billion in debts
(Nikolay et al., 2013). It led to a quick asset renovation to lessen the yearly operating cost to $3
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DELTA AIRLINES COMPANY
billion by 2007. There was a reduction in the personnel’ wages by 9% and the company intended
to fire about 7 thousand employees. There was a decrease in the internal flights by about 20%
and an increase in the number of profitable international flights with a 25%. In 2006, Delta called
its 1000 stewards fired earlier.
Delta Air Line is a company designed to offer air transportation services to passengers
and cargos throughout the United States and even around the whole world. The products
provided by the corporation are at the international, domestic and even the regional carriers.
Other businesses include aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul, vacation wholesale
operations and even the private jet operations (Nikolay et al., 2013). The company provides
maintenance and engineering support for the fleet of aircraft. There is also Delta Tech hops,
which serves aviation and airline customers around the world. The Delta Global Services
provides training services, staffing services, air solutions, and even professional services. In
