達美航空(英語:Delta Air Lines, Inc.,NYSE:[url=http://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYSAL]DAL[/url]) 是美國一家大型航空公司,也是目前國內客運總里程與客運機隊規模最大的航空公司,為天合聯盟創始成員之一,總部位於美國喬治亞州亞特蘭大,其在全球五大洲57個國家擁有超過247個航點。
The airline, along with its subsidiaries and regional affiliates, operates over 5,400 flights daily and serves an extensive domestic and international network that includes 319 destinations in 54 countries on six continents, as of October 2016.[13]
One of the three remaining legacy carriers, Delta is the sixth-oldest operating airline by foundation date, and the oldest airline still operating in the United States.
The company's history can be traced back to Huff Daland Dusters, founded in 1924 in Macon, Georgia as a crop dusting operation. The company moved to Monroe, Louisiana, and was later renamed Delta Air Services, in reference to the nearby Mississippi Delta region, and commenced passenger services on June 17, 1929. Among predecessors of today's Delta Air Lines, Western Airlines and Northwest Airlines began flying passengers in 1926 and 1927, respectively.
In 2013, Delta Air Lines was the world's largest airline in terms of scheduled passengers carried (120.6 million),[22] and the second-largest in terms of both revenue passenger-kilometers flown (277.6 billion)[23] and capacity (4.4 billion ASM/week; March 2013).[24]