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Delta Vacations(R) and NWA WorldVacations(R) Combine to Offer Travelers the Best Selection and

As part of the continued Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines merger and integration, NWA WorldVacations is now Delta Vacations.

NWA WorldVacations has been providing vacation packages to the world's best-loved destinations for more than 20 years. These same vacation packages are available to travelers through the recently integrated Delta Vacations.

"As Delta and Northwest move toward becoming one airline, under the Delta name, the time was right to integrate these two brands," said Ken Pomerantz, president and chief marketing officer for MLT Vacations, the company that manages the Delta Vacations brand. "Travelers will find convenient one-stop shopping for every aspect of their vacations - air, hotel, rental car, and sightseeing tours and excursions - and they will find that air and hotel packages on Delta Vacations feature the lowest airfare on Delta and Northwest flights," he added.

When travelers book their vacations using Delta Vacations, they also gain access to:

-- Flexible, convenient non-stop and connecting flights on Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines, and their partners. Fly to the most popular vacation destinations in the US, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Costa Rica, Europe and Asia.

-- Incredible savings. Delta Vacations offers the lowest airfares available on Delta and Northwest, discounted hotel rates and special deals at the world's best and largest vacation properties.

-- Miles and Bonus Miles. SkyMiles and WorldPerks members earn flight miles, Medallion or Elite Qualification Miles, and up to 7,500 bonus miles.

Delta Vacations offers leisure vacation packages to more than 200 exciting destinations worldwide.

About Delta Vacations Delta Vacations is a product of MLT Vacations, one of the largest providers of vacation packages in the United States. Delta Vacations offers vacation packages via scheduled air service on Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines, Delta Connection(R) carriers and Delta Worldwide Partners to more than 200 of the world's most appealing leisure destinations. Its marketing alliances allow customers to earn and redeem SkyMiles or WorldPerks on more than 16,000 daily flights offered by SkyTeam alliance carriers. Delta Vacations also offers the LIFESTYLE Collection featuring Luxury and Romance, providing luxury vacation packages with the highest level of personal service and attention to detail and romance vacation packages for the perfect destination wedding or honeymoon. For more information, consult a travel agent or visit www.deltavacations.com.

SOURCE: MLT Vacations

MLT Vacations 
Alison Traxler, 952-470-3859 
atraxler@mltvacations.com

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Companies: Delta Air Lines, Inc. (DALw)

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Delta: Global Recession, Rising Oil Prices Forcing Additional Changes to Business - Zibb.com

Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) today issued the following memo to its more than 70,000 employees worldwide from CEO Richard Anderson and President Edward H. Bastian.

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     To:      Delta Colleagues Worldwide

     From:    Richard Anderson and Ed Bastian

     Subject: Global Recession and Rising Oil Prices Forcing Additional
              Changes To Our Business

We are all seeing negative impacts from the global recession and rising oil prices not only in the news, but also in our communities and personal finances. Clearly, the airline industry is not immune. Industry passenger revenues have declined nearly 20 percent in the first four months of the year compared to the same period in 2008. That trend is expected to continue in the near term. On top of this, cost pressures from rising jet fuel prices - up more than 20 percent since the start of the year - coupled with softer travel demand due to the spread of the H1N1 virus, have created a difficult business environment.

These forces that are affecting the industry are creating significant headwinds for Delta. Declining revenues will overtake the more than $6 billion in total benefits we expected this year from lower year-over-year fuel prices, merger synergies and capacity reductions.

This morning, at an investor conference in New York, we will announce additional steps to align our capacity with market demand, preserve liquidity, and ensure Delta's long-term success. This plan includes reducing our system capacity by 10 percent compared to 2008. Capacity reductions will begin in September. In this environment, our merger makes more sense than ever and we will continue to accelerate our integration, as it gives us a competitive advantage and strengthens our financial foundation. We also will maintain tight controls on our costs and capital spending.

Customer demand for international travel has fallen significantly. Accordingly, we plan to reduce our international capacity by an additional 5 percent from what we announced in March, for a 15 percent total reduction in international capacity. This fall's capacity reductions will target routes that have experienced losses in the current economic climate and with higher fuel prices, including:

    --  Suspending nonstop service from Atlanta to Seoul and Shanghai and
        instead routing customers for these flights over Detroit or Tokyo, or on
        nonstop SkyTeam partner flights.
    --  Suspending nonstop flights from Cincinnati to Frankfurt and
        London-Gatwick. Cincinnati customers will still be able to reach these
        and many other international destinations via our other European
        gateways.
    --  Suspending nonstop service between New York-JFK and Edinburgh.

    --  Reducing weekly frequencies connecting Atlanta and Detroit to Mexico
        City and postponing some previously planned seasonal service between
        non-hub cities and Mexican beach destinations due to the impact of the
        H1N1 virus on customers' travel plans.

In keeping with our long-term business plan, we continue to grow the global footprint that is a cornerstone of our successful strategy. While we must reduce capacity this year, our international capacity this fall will still be more than 20 percent larger than it was before our global expansion began in 2005, and we are adding more than 20 new markets to our international network in 2009, including:

    --  Los Angeles-Sydney
    --  Salt Lake City-Tokyo
    --  Detroit-Shanghai
    --  New York-Prague
    --  Pittsburgh-Paris

    --  Atlanta-Johannesburg

By leveraging the unique strengths of our network, hub structure and alliances, we continue to provide the most travel options for our customers. Additional details of network changes are available on DeltaNet.

The additional capacity reductions mean we again must reassess staffing needs. While the challenges of the current environment preclude us from making guarantees, our goal remains to avoid any involuntary furloughs of frontline employees.

We will not allow the economy to negatively affect our merger integration - in fact, the current environment gives additional urgency to accelerate our efforts. You will see us move more quickly to rebrand and consolidate facilities, repaint aircraft and ramp-up our frontline training activities.

These are tough times and people often ask what they can do to contribute. Your most important contribution is to stay focused on doing your job well. We must all continue to deliver excellent customer service, run a strong operation and execute our Flight Plan. The entire industry is dealing with a difficult economy and rising fuel prices, but no one else has the opportunities and the people to match Delta in successfully navigating this crisis. Do what you do well, and we have no doubt that we will win.

Thank you for the incredible work you do for our customers every day. Together, we are building a stronger Delta.

About Delta Air Lines

Delta Air Lines is the world's largest airline. From its hubs in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York-JFK, Salt Lake City, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Amsterdam and Tokyo-Narita, Delta, its Northwest subsidiary and Delta Connection carriers offer service to 382 destinations in 71 countries and serves more than 170 million passengers each year. Delta's marketing alliances allow customers to earn and redeem either SkyMiles or WorldPerks on more than 16,000 daily flights offered by SkyTeam and other partners. Delta's more than 70,000 employees worldwide are reshaping the aviation industry as the only U.S. airline to offer a full global network. Customers can check in for flights, print boarding passes, check bags and flight status at delta.com.

Forward-looking Statements

Statements in this news release that are not historical facts, including statements regarding our estimates, expectations, beliefs, intentions, projections or strategies for the future, may be "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the estimates, expectations, beliefs, intentions, projections and strategies reflected in or suggested by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the cost of aircraft fuel; the effects of the global recession; the effects of the global financial crisis; the impact of posting collateral in connection with our fuel hedge contracts; the impact that our indebtedness will have on our financial and operating activities and our ability to incur additional debt; the restrictions that financial covenants in our financing agreements will have on our financial and business operations; labor issues; the ability to realize the anticipated benefits of our merger with Northwest; the integration of the Delta and Northwest workforces; interruptions or disruptions in service at one of our hub airports; our increasing dependence on technology in its operations; our ability to retain management and key employees; the ability of our credit card processors to take significant holdbacks in certain circumstances; the effects of terrorist attacks; and competitive conditions in the airline industry.

Additional information concerning risks and uncertainties that could cause differences between actual results and forward-looking statements is contained in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008. Caution should be taken not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements, which represent our views only as of June 11, 2009, and which we have no current intention to update.

SOURCE Delta Air Lines

http://www.delta.com

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