Delta Air Lines

Delta Air Lines is an airline based in the state of Georgia in the United States, operating scheduled domestic and international services.

= History = Delta Air Service was incorporated on December 3, 1928, and named after the Mississippi Delta region. Passenger operations began on June 17, 1929, from Dallas, Texas, to Jackson, Mississippi, with stops at Shreveport and Monroe, Louisiana.

Delta Air Lines acquired Northwest Airlines in 2008 and fully absorbed it in 2010.

Delta Air Lines in British Columbia
Delta Air Lines operates flights between Vancouver and Atlanta, Georgia, Detroit, Michigan, and Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota. The Minneapolis route was inaugurated by Northwest Orient Airlines (a predecessor of Northwest Airlines]] in 1966; the Detroit service was launched by Northwest in 1988.

Although Delta was never a direct customer of De Havilland BC, through the absorption of Northwest it acquired two DHBC-7 Trident 7E airliners in 2010, retiring them in 2011 and 2012 respectively, along with eight DHBC-7 Trident 8s; one was retired in each of 2013 and 2014, followed by three in 2015, whilst the last three were retired in 2016.

= Fleet =

Current

 * Airbus A220-100 - 45
 * Airbus A220-300 - 10, 40 on order
 * Airbus A319-100 - 57
 * Airbus A320-200 - 60
 * Airbus A321-200 - 127
 * Airbus A321neo - 3, 152 on order
 * Airbus A330-200 - 11
 * Airbus A330-300 - 31
 * Airbus A330-900 - 15, 22 on order
 * Airbus A350-900 - 24, 20 on order
 * Boeing 717-200 - 64, to be retired by 2025
 * Boeing 737-800 - 77
 * Boeing 737-900ER - 159
 * Boeing 757-200 - 100
 * Boeing 757-300 - 16
 * Boeing 767-300ER - 42
 * Boeing 767-400ER - 21
 * Boeing 777-200ER - 8, to be retired by 2025
 * Boeing 777-200LR - 10, to be retired by 2030

Historic

 * Airbus A310-200 - 2 (1991-1995)
 * Airbus A310-300 - 9 (1991-1996)
 * Boeing 727-100 - 8 (1972-1977), inherited from Northeast Airlines
 * Boeing 727-200 - 183 (1972-2003), 20 inherited from Northeast Airlines
 * Boeing 737-200 - 75 (1983-2006)
 * Boeing 737-300 - 31 (1987-2006)
 * Boeing 737-700 - 10 (2008-2020)
 * Boeing 747-100 - 5 (1970-1977)
 * Boeing 747-400 - 16 (2010-2018), inherited from Northwest Airlines
 * Boeing 767-200 - 20 (1982-2006)
 * Boeing 767-300 - 28 (1986-2019)
 * Convair CV-340 - 8 (1953-1970)
 * Convair CV-440 - 10 (1953-1970)
 * Curtiss C-46 Commando - 5 (1957-1967)
 * DHBC-7 Trident 7E - 2 (2010-2012), inherited from Northwest Airlines
 * DHBC-7 Trident 8 - 8 (2010-2016), inherited from Northwest Airlines
 * Douglas DC-3 - 24 (1940-1960)
 * Douglas DC-6 - 12 (1949-1968)
 * Douglas DC-7 - 11 (1954-1968)
 * Douglas DC-7B - 10 (1954-1968)
 * Douglas DC-8-11/12/51 - 22 (1959-1981)
 * Douglas DC-8-33 - 7 (1968-1974)
 * Douglas DC-8-61/71 - 13 (1967-1989)
 * Douglas DC-9-14 - 17 (1965-1973)
 * Douglas DC-9-30 - 77 (1969-1993), +20 inherited from Northwest Airlines but retired immediately
 * Douglas DC-9-41 - 0, inherited from Northwest Airlines but retired immediately
 * Douglas DC-9-51 - 34, inherited from Northwest Airlines
 * Fairchild-Hiller FH-227 - 5 (1972-1974), inherited from Northeast Airlines
 * Lockheed L-100 Hercules - 8 (1966-1973)
 * Lockheed L1011 - 70 (1973-2001)
 * McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 - 5 (1972-1976)
 * McDonnell Douglas MD-11 - 17 (1990-2004)
 * McDonnell Douglas MD-88 - 120 (1988-2022)
 * McDonnell Douglas MD-90 - 65 (1995-2022)

BC-made aircraft
''Note: a green background indicates an aircraft in service, a yellow background indicates a retired aircraft, and a pink background indicates an aircraft lost in an accident.

= Routes = Entries with a green background indicates a destination in British Columbia. "Domestic" refers to services within the United States; "Continental" refers to services between NAFTA signatories (BC, Mexico, Canada, and the United States).