Delta Air Lines

From application to altitude: Become a Delta flight attendant
16 Sep 2025
Delta is accepting flight attendant applications for its upcoming 2026 hiring classes.

Austin, meet your new nonstops: Miami, Denver, Columbus & Kansas City, plus more
13 Sep 2025
With these new and expanded routes, Delta now serves nearly 30 destinations from AUS, furthering its strategic growth in a city celebrated for its vibrant culture and booming tech scene.
Meet Delta’s Team USA athlete ambassadors: Fueled by Delta on the road to Milano Cortina 2026
13 Sep 2025

Delta saddles up with more flights to the finish line for Kentucky's big race
13 Sep 2025
Hold onto your hats (and your mint juleps)—Delta is out of the gate with its largest-ever flight schedule to Louisville (SDF) just in time for the big race.

Delta partners with Shell and the Port of Portland for first commercial-scale SAF uplift at Portland International Airport
13 Sep 2025
Delta Air Lines, in collaboration with Shell and Portland International Airport (PDX), has taken delivery of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) into the PDX fuel system, marking the first commercial-scale SAF uplift at PDX.

Delta resumes Tel Aviv service from JFK on Sept. 1
01 Sep 2025
Delta will resume daily flights to Tel Aviv (TLV) from New York-JFK on Sept. 1, 2025.
Close your eyes, it's still a beautiful world
01 Sep 2025
Blind customer Thomas Panek explores the Delta One Lounge at JFK, revealing how inclusive design and deep listening create beauty beyond sight.

Three everyday ways to maximize your SkyMiles Membership
26 Aug 2025
SkyMiles Members have more ways than ever to earn and enjoy Medallion® Status—no flight required. With Medallion Qualification Dollars (MQD) thresholds to qualify for 2027 Medallion Status remaining u
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?

Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
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The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?

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By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.

Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.

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By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?

Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.

Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.

Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.