Company Watch - Delta Air Lines.Oct 16, 2006 Delta paints 757 to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Delta Air Lines has painted a 757 pink and white to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The airline will sell $2 pink lemonades on U.S. flights this month, with proceeds to benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Oct 14, 2006 Delta polls frequent fliers on preferred amenities. Delta Air Lines has sent questionnaires to frequent fliers asking them which amenities they prefer on flights more than four hours long. The survey also asks fliers to rank the foods they are likely to purchase on long flights. Oct 13, 2006 Delta announces further international expansion; Grinstein to retire in 2007. Delta Air Lines announced another international expansion yesterday and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Gerald Grinstein Gerald Grinstein is the former CEO of Delta Air Lines, Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia, the world's second largest airline. Grinstein came to the position in 2004, after CEO Leo F. signaled that he will retire after the carrier emerges from bankruptcy next year. Delta, which has reduced domestic flying in favor of an expanded international schedule, plans to launch direct flights in spring 2007 from Atlanta to Prague (from May 2), Vienna (from May 21), Dubai (from May 31) and Seoul Incheon (from June 4) and from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of JFK to Pisa/Florence (from May 31), Shannon (from June 2) and Bucharest (from June 5). Additionally, it will double JFK-London Gatwick service from once to twice daily from April 1 and ATL-Sao Paulo from once to twice daily from June15 to Aug. 15. Oct 13, 2006 Delta Air Lines' Grinstein, 73, was widely reported yesterday to have told a New York audience that DL is on track to emerge from Chapter 11 in the first half of 2007 and that he will leave the company soon after. No successor has been chosen, he added. Oct 13, 2006 Delta Air Lines said it will introduce lie-flat seats made by Contour Premium Aircraft Seating in international business class cabins on two 777-200ERs slated for delivery in early 2008. It will install the "sleeper Sleeper Stock in which there is little investor interest but that has significant potential to gain in price once its attractions are recognized. Antithesis of high flyer. suites," which will include on-demand digital video and music, on the remainder of its 777s starting in fall 2008 and concluding by 2010. It also "expects" to put the seats in 767s. Oct 13, 2006 Delta to add lie-flat seats to business class. Delta Air Lines will add horizontal seats that convert into beds to business-class service in 2008. Delta says its entire fleet of 777s and 767s that fly internationally will feature the seats by 2010. Oct 11, 2006 Delta Air Lines will launch service from Trenton to Boston (thrice-daily) and Atlanta (daily) on Dec. 18. Both routes will be operated by Comair aboard 50-seat CRJs. Delta also will start thrice-weekly flights from Mexico City Mexico City Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi to Orlando and Salt Lake City on Dec. 1 and a twice-weekly Atlanta-Pointe a Pietre service on Dec. 13, all aboard 737-800s. It will begin flights from Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. to Managua (twice-weekly from Dec. 16) and Puerto Vallarta Puerto Vallarta (pwār`tō väyär`tä), city (1990 pop. 93,503), Jalisco state, W Mexico. Located on the expansive Bahía de Banderas [Bay of Flags], Puerto Vallarta has been used since the 16th cent. (daily from Dec. 15) and increase LAX-Guatemala City service to four-times-weekly from weekly on Dec. 17. Oct 11, 2006 Delta builds engine maintenance business. Delta Air Lines is building a business that provides third-party engine maintenance to other airlines. In 2005, the business generated $240 million in revenue. Executives expect revenue from the business to grow substantially this year. Oct 9, 2006 Some analysts expect airline mergers in the near future. Some analysts expect a wave of airline mergers in the coming months as Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines finalize their bankruptcy reorganization plans A scheme authorized by federal law and promulgated by the president whereby he or she alters the structure of federal agencies to promote government efficiency and economy through a transfer, consolidation, coordination, authorization, or abolition of functions. . United Airlines Chief Executive Glenn Tilton Glenn Tilton (born April 1948 in Washington, DC) is the Chairman, President, and CEO of UAL Corporation, the parent company of United Airlines. He has held this role since September 2002, 3 months before UAL Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. has said publicly that the industry would benefit from consolidation. 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