Delta’s inaugural flight from Dallas, Texas, to Jackson, Mississippi, via Shreveport and Monroe, Louisiana, on a Travel Air S-6000-B airplane carried five passengers and one pilot. #Delta#AvGeekThis tweet was posted on June 17, 2022.
From a crop-dusting operation to a global airline, Delta was founded in 1925 as Huff Daland Dusters, one of the first aerial crop-dusting companies, and incorporated as Delta Air Service in 1928, the company’s first passenger flight occurred #onthisday in 1929.
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Onthisday in 1971, Southwest Airlines began intrastate operations in Texas. The “Love Bird” service out of Dallas Love Field offered 12 daily round-trip flights to Houston and 6 round-trip flights to San Antonio on Boeing 737s. Have you ever flown on @SouthwestAir? #avgeekThis tweet was posted on June 18, 2019.
RT @airlivenet: BREAKING American Airlines Dreamliner suffered severe bird strike today during flight #AA88 from Beijing to Dallas. http://…This tweet was posted on July 27, 2015.
RT @dlflightmuseum: “Welcome aboard Delta’s first passenger flight from Dallas to Jackson” Today is the 90th anniversary of Delta’s passeng…This tweet was posted on June 17, 2019.
RT @e_russell: Delta debuted its first 747, a -100, on flights from Atlanta to Los Angeles via Dallas on 25OCT70. It's map: https://t.co/zL…This tweet was posted on December 18, 2017.
The initial “Love Bird” service out of Dallas Love Field offered twelve daily round-trip flights from Dallas to Houston and six round-trip flights from Dallas to San Antonio on Boeing 737-200s with $20 one-way fares. #avgeek#southwestThis tweet was posted on March 15, 2022.
The TransStar Airlines is an airline that is relevant to the SFO Museum collection.
WHO SHOT J.R.? 82 million people tuned in for Dallas in 1980 to find out. http://t.co/DfgoHI1I http://t.co/zEbLiFG7 #TheAntennaAgeThis tweet was posted on November 21, 2011.