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Delta Air Lines reveals upgraded cabin interiors — here’s what to expect from the glow-up

Story by Brooke Steinberg

Delta Air Lines is giving its cabin interiors a major upgrade.

The “modern” new designs will feature fresh seating materials, enhanced lighting, a renewed color palette, and new decorative motifs and signature branding, according to Delta.

It will be a few years before the airline’s entire fleet is renovated, but the first plane with the overhaul — a 27-year-old narrowbody Boeing 757 aircraft — will debut this fall on domestic and short-haul international routes, just in time for Delta’s centennial anniversary.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/other/delta-air-lines-reveals-upgraded-cabin-interiors-here-s-what-to-expect-from-the-glow-up/ar-AA1sjS4o

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Delta: ‘More Normalized’ Industrywide Pilot Hiring Anticipated

Airline estimates 5,000 new pilot jobs across the business next year.

Ryan Ewing

Updated Oct 14, 2024 

After cutting its pilot hiring figures by roughly 50 percent in 2024, Delta Air Lines is forecasting a “more normalized” tempo next year. Most major U.S. carriers hired pilots at record numbers soon after the pandemic but have since throttled back.

The Atlanta-based airline hopes to return its regional capacity to pre-pandemic levels in summer 2025, driven by improvements in pilot supply, company leadership shared during a third-quarter earnings call on Thursday.

“With hiring and training normalizing, we are growing into our resources and gaining traction on efficiency and initiatives, helping fund continued investments in our people and brand,” said Delta finance chief Dan Janki during the call.

Data from the Future and Active Pilot Advisors (FAPA) shows that Delta has hired 870 pilots so far in 2024, representing an over 50 percent year-over-year change from the same period in 2023. As a whole, the industry follows a similar trend, with major U.S. carriers reporting a roughly 40 percent reduction in hiring numbers overall.

Delta expects industrywide pilot hiring to be more in line with 2019 levels.

“As you know, pilot constraints as the majors were hiring early in the recovery period put a lot of strain on availability of pilot crews for the regional carriers…and we’ve been working very closely with them,” Delta president Glen Hauenstein said.

Hauenstein added that the company expects U.S. airlines to hire approximately 5,000 pilots next year. In 2019, airlines were just 23 new hires short of this figure, according to FAPA’s data.

“So [we are] returning to more normalized pilot hiring across the industry,” Hauenstein said.

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