Posts Tagged ‘ Delta Airlines ’

Message to US Airlines ‘Wake Up and Reduce In-Flight Consumer Waste!’

January 28, 2012
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Cabin Crew- It's easy to be green!

Join Green America in asking U.S. airlines to recycle As concerned consumers, we believe that it is important for us to know that the airline companies with which we travel help reduce consumer waste by implementing recycling programs. Overall, airlines have the capacity to recycle nearly 500 million more pounds of waste each year, including 250 million pounds of in-flight waste. Additionally, nearly 75% of in-flight generated waste is recyclable; however only about 20% of that waste actually is...

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Delta Sends Customer Service Workers to Charm School

February 25, 2011
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Delta Sends Its 11,000 Agents to Charm School Airline Ranked Last Among Major Carriers in Customer Service, So Training Targets Problem-Solving and Personal Skills Atlanta When a flier is frustrated, it takes just one surly airline agent to give a black eye to an entire company. And so after a particularly bad year last year in customer service, Delta Air Lines is sending 11,000 agents back to school. Every ticket counter, gate and baggage agent and supervisor is going through renewed...

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Delta apologizes for bumping disabled passenger

February 4, 2011
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Aghhhhh, the joys of summer air travel.

Delta now says it was wrong to refuse Twin Cities woman because of medical equipment. While her nurses were stowing the 100 pounds of medical equipment she needs to travel with, Carrie Salberg was given a startling order: Get off the plane. Salberg, who has muscular dystrophy, was never told why she couldn’t use the ventilator she requires to breathe on the Jan. 13 flight that was supposed to carry her back home to the Twin Cities from New...

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Oversold Flight? Bid on your compensation before giving up seat

January 5, 2011
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Delta Auctions Off Flight Bumps To Lowest Bidders A reader over at Marginal Revolution spotted Delta’s new system where when you check in at the kiosk it asks you to bid on what it would cost to get you to volunteer your seat. Below the entry box it says, “Delta accepts lower bids first.” Genius! With this method the airline doesn’t have to guess what might be the lowest bid passengers might accept and then try to auction it off....

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Missing Dog Lost by Delta Airlines Found Dead

January 3, 2011
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Army officer’s dog lost by Delta turns up dead Nala, the 8-year-old German shepherd that escaped from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport three days before Christmas, was found dead Saturday by a road crew alongside I-75. Delta Air Lines, which was transporting the dog from San Diego to its new home in Germany when Nala escaped, confirmed the discovery, saying in a statement that the dog apparently was hit by a car. A Delta spokeswoman said the airline would be donating $1,000 to...

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Delta Airlines Loses Another Dog. Help Find “Nala”

December 31, 2010
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See below for update from Angels Rescue………. Military Family’s Dog Lost Thousands of Miles From Home A woman from San Diego is on a mission to find her missing dog … which is believed to be thousands of miles from home and a continent away from where she should be. Nala boarded a Delta flight in San Diego, headed for a new home in Germany with her owners. The German shepherd mix somehow “vanished” from her locked crate during a layover...

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Kanye West Surprises Delta Passengers

November 9, 2010
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Kanye West Surprises Delta Airline Passengers With In-Flight Concert — Watch Our Exclusive Video! Hollywoodlife.com Passengers aboard a Delta Airlines flight from Minneapolis to NYC literally experienced the coolest night of their collective lives Nov. 5 when they were treated to a surprise performance by Mr. Kanye West. A passenger tells HollywoodLife.com that Kanye, who was seated in First Class, came on the loud speaker about 30 minutes into the flight and rapped family-friendly versions of “The Good Life” and “Gold...

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Delta Flight Attendants Vote NO to Union Representation

November 3, 2010
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Aghhhhh, the joys of summer air travel.

Delta flight attendants say ‘no’ to union In a labor battle that has loomed since the 2008 merger of Northwest and Delta, flight attendants voted to reject a union to represent the combined 21,000 workforce. By DAVID SHAFFER and DEE DEPASS, Star Tribune In a major labor defeat, a union lost its hard-fought election to represent 20,100 flight attendants at Delta Air Lines on Wednesday. The vote was 9,544 or 52 percent against the union, and 8,776 or 48...

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85,000 Apply for a Few Hundred Flight Attendant Jobs at Delta

October 15, 2010
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Delta hiring hundreds, 85,000 apply By Kelly Yamanouchi The Atlanta Journal-Constitution More than 85,000 people have applied for jobs as Delta Air Lines flight attendants since the Atlanta carrier announced two months ago that it planned to hire. Delta in August said it would call flight attendants back to work from furlough and then hire new ones, targeting those with foreign language skills for international flights. This week, Chief Executive Richard Anderson said in a message to employees that all flight...

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Delta Passenger removed from flight after voicing concerns about pilot

August 4, 2010
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Should passengers speak up? Was Delta correct removing her from the flight? Unfairly bumped? by Toni Guinyard (KNBC) TOLUCA LAKE, CA (NBC) – A California woman was recently kicked off a Delta Airlines flight after reporting that she thought she had smelled alcohol on the Captain’s breath. Cynthia Angel said the incident occurred on July 19th as she was trying to travel home to Southern California from Georgia. Angel said the trouble occurred after she and three other passengers had...

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Sweaty Mess on Delta Flight Stuck at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport

July 27, 2010
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Passenger Anthony Morales 'sweats' it out on Delta

Passenger Lodges Airline Complaint on YouTube While Sweating on the Tarmac PHOENIX – Imagine sitting a plane on the tarmac with no air conditioning for 3 hours in 100 plus Phoenix temperatures. That’s what one passenger says happened to him on Sunday. The passenger from Scottsdale was on his way to Atlanta. He became so frustrated with what was going on, he picked up his cell phone, hit record, and posted the video on YouTube. Tony Morales sat on...

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Delta Airlines Hiring Workers at its 25 Biggest Airports

July 16, 2010
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Delta Air Expects 65,000 Applicants for 1,000 Job Openings July 16 (Bloomberg) — Delta Air Lines Inc., the world’s largest carrier, said it anticipates getting about 65,000 applications for its 1,000 airport job openings as millions of Americans continue to look for work. The airline is hiring workers at its 25 biggest U.S. airports to help with planes that are flying with near-record percentages of seats filled and cope with weather disruptions, Chief Executive Officer Richard Anderson said today...

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Blending Airline Cultures, One Flyers Observations on the Combined Delta/Northwest Airlines

July 12, 2010
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Spot The Northwest Flight Attendant By Simon Sinek I flew to London and back on Delta Airlines, which was great because I got to play my new favorite game: spot the old Northwest Flight Crew. Northwest and Delta merged last year to form America’s largest airline. Though the planes are now painted the same and the crews all wear the same uniforms, they do not all act the same way. The cultures of the two companies, more specifically how management treated...

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United Airlines Leads the Way for May, But Will They Have to Pay?

July 8, 2010
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United Beats the Competition!

Govt Says 5 May Flights Sat on Tarmac Over 3 Hours By Samantha Bomkamp  (AP) – NEW YORK — There were five flights stuck on the tarmac for three hours or more in May, the first month under a new rule banning lengthy tarmac delays, the government said Thursday. It will be several weeks to a month before any fines may be levied against the airlines for violations, as the Department of Transportation investigates. The maximum fine is $27,500...

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Delta Passengers Stuck at Detroit Metro Gate

June 24, 2010
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Aghhhhh, the joys of summer air travel.

Detroit — Passengers are stuck aboard a Delta flight leaving Detroit Metro Airport because pilots had to leave after the plane was forced to wait hours at the gate due to a weather delay in Philadelphia. Flight 2262 had been scheduled to depart for Philadelphia about 5:40 p.m., but the plane still was sitting on the runway after 10 p.m., passengers said. The DC-9-50 plane seats 125 passengers, according to federal flight records. Passengers didn’t board until about 7:25 p.m., and...

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Most Complained About Airlines ~ from Travel & Leisure

June 8, 2010
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Delta & United, First Place and Runner Up

Have an airline gripe? Who doesn’t? Here are the U.S. airlines with the most complaints—and how you can make your voice heard, too. By Valaer Murray Sometimes air travel goes horribly wrong. Take the Continental-operated ExpressJet Flight 2816. On August 7, 2009, bad weather diverted the Houston-to-Minneapolis flight to Rochester, MN, where the tiny commuter plane sat packed with 47 passengers from midnight to 6:30 a.m. No one was allowed off, and passengers were offered only one drink. When the door was...

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Delta Flight Attendant Arrested For Attempting to Carry Handgun on Flight

June 4, 2010
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I'm sure there is a very logical explanation for this. Not for this pic, I mean for her packing a piece. She does look troubled. Nothing like her glamor shot on Facebook~ Martha

~Updated with news footage~ Kristi E. Swartz, Atlanta Journal-Constitution A Delta Air Lines flight attendant preparing to board a plane bound for Atlanta was arrested after authorities found a handgun in her purse. Amber Robillard, who lives in Atlanta, was stopped at the Transportation Security Administration security screening checkpoint at the Indianapolis airport and arrested after they discovered the gun, Delta spokeswoman Susan Elliott said. Robillard, 39, did not fly to Atlanta with the rest of the crew on...

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Delta Airlines~ Turbulence Broke Flight Attendant’s Back

June 2, 2010
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Delta gates at West Palm Beach Airport

The turbulence engulfing Delta Air Lines Flight 2425 en route to West Palm Beach lasted just two seconds. While the early word from airline officials was that no passengers were hurt and three flight attendants suffered minor injuries on the March 11 flight, it turns out one of the attendants broke her back and has not been able to return to work, according to federal documents and her union. The lead flight attendant was momentarily “suspended midair,” grazing the...

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Texas Man Arrested For Hitting Delta Flight Attendant After Refusing Sexual Advances

May 24, 2010
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By Melissa Correa Velázquez, El Vocero – El Vocero de Puerto Rico (Note: The original article was published in Spanish, and translated for this post.) May 24, 2010 Federal authorities arrested a man, who aboard a Delta Airlines flight assaulted a flight attendant after she refused to have sex in the bathroom of the aircraft. Anthony David Watson, 38, a resident of Texas, was traveling on Flight 424 of the Delta Airlines to Atlanta, Georgia with his wife, Karen...

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USA Today Reports “For airports and airlines, creative recycling brings cost savings”

May 12, 2010
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Delta Air Lines recycles worn seat covers through Tierra Ideas, which turns them into messenger bags and other travel accessories

By Harriet Baskas, special for USA TODAY A recent Scientific American story noted that, with the help of airlines, the 30 largest airports in the country create “enough waste to equal the trash produced by cities the size of Miami or Minneapolis.” That sounds pretty dire, but in the days before airports embraced the”‘reduce, reuse, recycle” mantra and before airlines adopted their current penny-pinching mode, it was worse. Today, it’s a much different story. Most airports at least have...

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Delta Loses Dog on Flight From Mexico City

May 10, 2010
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Paco was with his loving new family only four days

By Christian Boone-  The Atlanta Journal Constitution Paco, a cuddly Dachsund and Jack Russell terrier mix, found Josiah Allen on the beach in Puerto Vallarta. “He just came and sat beside us, stayed all day,” said Allen, a college student from Ontario, Canada. “We left to go to the pool and when we came back he was there, waiting.” Allen, 19, and his girlfriend decided to take the one-year-old stray home, spending roughly $100 on vaccinations. They treated him for...

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United Airlines Might Find Continental Would Make Better Spouse

April 9, 2010
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Chicago Business, Crain’s 04/09/10 (Bloomberg) — Continental Airlines Inc. would make the best merger partner for United Airlines, creating the world’s largest carrier, should the pair restart talks that fizzled in 2008, analysts said. Executives at Continental started a review of options two days ago after the disclosure of United’s talks with US Airways Group Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because details are confidential. Spokesmen for all three airlines declined...

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