Delta Air Lines

Delta Air Lines is one of the largest air carriers in the U.S., along with American Airlines and United Airlines. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, it has hubs in Atlanta, Cincinnati, New York, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Salt Lake City and flies to more than 50 countries. Comair is a subsidiary.

In 2011 Delta reported $35,115,000,000 in revenues.

Ties to Pete Peterson's "Fix the Debt"
The Campaign to Fix the Debt is the latest incarnation of a decades-long effort by former Nixon man turned Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson to slash earned benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare under the guise of fixing the nation's "debt problem."

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Political contributions
Delta Air Lines gave $72,500 to federal candidates in the 2006 election through its political action committee - 29% to Democrats and 71% to Republicans.

Lobbying
Delta spent $1,800,000 for lobbying in the first half of 2007. Five outside lobbying firms were used, including Quinn Gillespie & Associates, Preston, Gates & Ellis, LLP, and The Washington Group.

Board of Directors
As of January 2013
 * Richard H. Anderson - CEO (former executive VP of UnitedHealth Group
 * Edward H. Bastian - President
 * Roy J. Bostock - Vice Chairman
 * John S. Brinzo
 * Daniel A. Carp - Chairman
 * David G. DeWalt (former president and CEO of McAfee, Inc.)
 * William Easter
 * Mickey Foret (former executive VP and CFO of Northwest Airlines)
 * Shirley C. Franklin
 * David R. Goode
 * George N. Mattson (former partner at Goldman, Sachs & Co.
 * Paula Rosput Reynolds
 * Kenneth C. Rogers
 * Kenneth B. Woodrow (former vice chairman of Target Corporation)

Former board members include
 * John F. Smith Jr.
 * Richard K. Goeltz ( also former Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of American Express Company
 * Walter Massey (also Director of Bank of America Corp., BP PLC, and McDonald's)

Executives
As of January 2013
 * Richard H. Anderson - Chief Executive Officer
 * Edward Bastian - President
 * Michael H. Campbell - Executive Vice President, Human Resources & Labor Relations
 * Stephen E. Gorman - Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
 * Glen W. Hauenstein - Executive Vice President, Network Planning & Revenue Management
 * Richard B. Hirst - Senior Vice President & General Counsel
 * Paul Jacobson - Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
 * Andrea Fischer Newman - Senior Vice President, Government Affairs
 * Holden Shannon - Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Real Estate
 * John E. "Ned" Walker - Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications
 * Theresa Wise, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer

Former executives include
 * Gerald Grinstein - former CEO
 * James M. Whitehurst - former COO
 * David Goode
 * Lee A. Macenczak - former executive VP of sales and customer service

Contact details
1030 Delta Boulevard Atlanta, GA 30320 Phone: 404-715-2600 Fax: 404-715-5042 Web: http://www.delta.com

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