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I want these chairs at the airport!

03/11/09

The Wall Street Journal picked up a story about some cool new airline seats, Thompson Solution’s Cozy Suite, that look downright cozy, and they say Delta Air Lines has hired the chair designers to create an economy-class version of the chair. That sounds great. But wouldn’t it be great it there were banks of seats →

Seating

Future Academy Award-winners on Delta?

02/23/09

Have a little Oscar fever? Then check out the possible Academy Award-winners of the future on an airplane – or on-line – courtesy of Delta’s Fly-In Movies. Five short film finalists were selected by programmers of the upcoming 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and will be shown, for free, from March 1 through April 12 on →

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Skate-and-fly in NYC at The Pond at Bryant Park

12/29/08

If you’re planning on being in New York City anytime before January 25th, you can go ice-skating for free at The Pond at Bryant Park. (Lockers are free as well, but there is a charge to rent locks and ice-skates, if you don’t have those with you.) (Courtesy The Pond at Bryant Park) Tomorrow morning →

Holiday travel: a vintage view

12/23/08

The Delta Air Lines archive manager posted this cute, classic 1939 ad for holiday travel on the Delta Air Lines blog. Unfortunately, bad weather means that lots of people who had planned to fly somewhere this holiday are ending up stuck at the airport instead. But let’s hope the mother and child in the ad →

Holidays

Time travel: Delta and Northwest merger

10/31/08

Lots of news stories out this week about the official merger of Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines. And that gave Marie Force, Delta’s Archives Manager, an excuse to poke around the Northwest Airlines site for her regular Friday entry on the Delta blog. She discovered that ‘Northwest’s many contributions range from the first closed-cabin →

History

“Cheap” helicopter rides between JFK and Manhattan on Delta

09/10/08

I usually pass right over announcements about helicopter service from any city to any airport because the ticket prices seem so outrageous. But today, perhaps because I’ve just written a column for USA TODAY about cheap excursions from airports, this notice caught my eye. And while $45 is not cheap, an eight-minute helicopter ride between →

Transportation

Airplane meal service – courtesy Delta pilots

09/05/08

File under: those were the days…. According to this entry by archives manager Marie Force in the Delta Air Lines blog today, back in the 1930’s the airline’s on-board meals were served by pilots. She writes: In 1936, Delta flew the Lockheed 10 Electras, which cruised 160 miles per hour and held 10 passengers, 2 →

Food

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