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Airlines collected record baggage fees in 2012

...billion, according to the government. That 3.7 percent profit margin comes from the baggage and change fees.Delta Air Lines once again took in the most fees ? $865.9 million from baggage alone ? but it also carried more passengers than...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-05-14/airlines-collected-record-
Delta to pay dividend, buy back shares

MINNEAPOLIS - Delta Air Lines will start paying a quarterly dividend and buy back some of its shares...airline and no regulations, it will be a great business," he said.Delta Air Lines Inc. is based in Atlanta. Its shares were up 58 cents, or 3...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-05-08/delta-pay-dividend-buy-bac
Delta CEO opposes knives policy

WASHINGTON - The head of Delta Air Lines on Friday joined the growing opposition to the Transportation Security Administration's new policy allowing passengers to carry...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-03-08/delta-ceo-opposes-knives-p
Some veterans suffer with unseen wounds

...assist them," Georgia labor commissioner Mark Butler said.Leander Hines, a reservations agent for Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, has a service dog he brings into work that serves as a medical alert dog and helps him with PTSD.A retired Army...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2012-12-28/some-veterans-suffer-unsee
Augusta Regional Airport measures more than a half-million passengers in 2012

...direct flight to Dallas in Jan uary.The addition of a US Airways flight to Wash ington, D.C., and some larger Delta Air Lines aircraft helped slightly, but aircraft are routinely filling to between 90 percent and 100 percent capacity."We...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-01-17/augusta-regional-airport-m
Delta to buy 49 percent of Virgin Atlantic

Delta Air Lines said it will buy almost half of Virgin Atlantic for $360 million as...almost 30 times more than Virgin Atlantic.Shares of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines Inc. rose 73 cents, or 7.1 percent, to $10.87 in morning trading...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2012-12-11/delta-buy-49-percent-virgi
Mary Price

...Mrs. Price was the daughter of the late Lester & Louise Johnson Dawson. She retired after 30 years of service with Delta Air Lines Credit Union and was a member of Gibson Methodist Church. Mary was preceded in death by her parents and is survived...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000162077091
Tommy Stewart

...at 2:00 PM at Platt's Belair Road Chapel with Trent Mercer and Arthur Pigman officiating. Tommy retired from Delta Air Lines after 34 years and was currently employed with R. T. Bailey Construction Co. He was a hard working man who never...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000162608317
Delta passenger who found needle in sandwich thought it was a toothpick

...America when he bit into a hot turkey sandwich aboard a Delta Air Lines flight and felt a sudden jab in the roof of his mouth...view the matter as a threat to national security.A Delta Air Lines Inc. spokes woman said the need les were found Sunday...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2012-07-17/delta-passenger-who-found-
Hedging drives Delta Air Lines to 2Q loss

...the whole idea of fuel hedging is to protect against big run-ups in oil prices. It didn't work out that way for Delta Air Lines Inc.Its bets on oil prices went the wrong way, pushing it to a second-quarter loss of $168 million, or 20 cents...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2012-07-25/hedging-drives-delta-air-l