Make the Most of Your Layover
I stumbled across this article written by Caroline Costello from the independenttraveler.com and thought this would be a fun article to share. -Sean C., Delta Vacations Flights with layovers are often cheaper than direct flights, but despite the savings, many travelers will pay more to avoid the extra time in the airport. Can we blame [...]
From the Delta Archives: ATL “Jet Base” in 1960
You know our aircraft hangars you see from the Atlanta airport runways with the neon “Fly Delta Jets” sign? They’re just one part of an enormous maintenance complex, our Techical Operations Center (TOC), which opened as a new Jet Overhaul Base in December 1960. This photo shows the “Fly Delta Jets” sign being installed on the roof in 1968: O [...]
Images of the Week: Northwest DC-3 Aerials
Leave the holiday rush behind and take a little aerial tour with us in one of Northwest Airlines’ first Douglas DC-3s. See what Northwest’s hometown, the Minneapolis/St Paul area of Minnesota, looked like in 1939. We’re ready to go from Northwest’s hangar at the municipal airport near downtown St. Paul (now Holman Field): View of the Mississippi River and St. [...]
Bring Back the Audacity of Airports
In Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Revolutionary Structure, author Alastair Gordon talks about the first time he visited JFK (then Idlewild) and the almost hallucinatory world inside the TWA terminal: “The air was charged with anticipation. Pilots stepped through pools of milky light… All I… Source
An Oasis for Travelers in the Dynamic City of Miami
I’m blogging today from the Miami Airport Marriott in Miami, Florida. We built this hotel in 1972. I remember back when we opened it, Garo Yepremian was the place kicker for the Miami Dolphins. We asked him to kick a football over the ribbon to open the hotel, and it was my finger that held [...]