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Delta Airlines is a U.S. based airline headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. It operates a large domestic and international network that spans North America, South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Caribbean. Delta Airlines currently flies to 463 destinations in 95 countries. In India, Delta Airlines flies to New Delhi and Mumbai.
Delta Airlines origin can be traced to Huff Daland Dusters, which was founded in 1924 in Monroe, Louisiana by several partners including Collett E. Woolman. In 1928, C.E. Woolman purchased Huff Daland Dusters and renamed it Delta Air Services after the Mississippi Delta. By 1934, Delta Air began mail service from Charleston to Fort Worth, including Atlanta, Augusta and other stops in Georgia.
In 1941, Delta moved its headquarters from Monroe to Atlanta, Georgia, to position itself along its new route network that connected Chicago and New Orleans to Florida and Ohio. Since then Delta has never looked back.
Presently, Delta has the largest route network "footprint" of any airline. In terms of passengers carried (approximately 119 million in 2005), Delta is the second-largest airline in the world (behind American Airlines). Delta operates an all-Boeing (including McDonnell Douglas aircraft) fleet. Among all airlines, Delta has the largest fleet of Boeing 767 aircraft.