Dozens of people have been barred from flying on Delta airplanes for refusing to comply with the airline industry’s mask policies, Delta CEO Ed Bastian told CNN’s Julia Chatterley on Friday. “We’ve had well over 100 people that have refused to keep their mask on during the flight,” he added.
- Delta’s list of must-haves came together with Avanade’s Mobile Airline platform utilizing Microsoft Dynamics for Retail and the sleek, modern hardware platform based on Nokia’s popular Lumia 820 device. Delta officials were so impressed with the pilot implementation of this solution that they are kicking off full implementation with more.
- If you have a mobile device, you can also load the Delta mobile application, which allows you to check in right from that device. As of publication, the service is available only at select.
- Delta Airlines believes it can save up to $13 million in fuel cost by ridding the cockpits of paper manuals. In addition, the company seems to have a great relationship with Microsoft since it equipped 19,000 flight attendants with a Nokia branded Windows Phone device in the past.
- Delta Air Lines. Check in, change seats, track your bag, check flight status, and more.
Delta Airlines plans to purchase 11,000 Surface 2 tablets from Microsoft for its pilots. Apparently, the airline wants to replace paper flight books, and the best way to do so is to equip each and every pilot with a Surface 2 tablet. Now, it is likely this is one big marketing spin orchestrated by Microsoft since American Airlines chose to run with the Apple iPad for its pilots.
According to AllThingsD, the deployment of the Surface 2 tablets will begin later this year for pilots who fly the 757 and 767 aircraft. The goal at the end of the day is to have all pilot cockpits paperless and more futuristic. Pilots will have access to reference documents, charts and other information via the Surface 2 tablets.
Take note these appear to be Surface 2 tablets — the Windows RT version — that will run custom Delta software and not Surface Pro 2 tablets (the Windows 8 Pro version).
Delta Airlines believes it can save up to $13 million in fuel cost by ridding the cockpits of paper manuals. In addition, the company seems to have a great relationship with Microsoft since it equipped 19,000 flight attendants with a Nokia branded Windows Phone device in the past.
We view this as a win for Microsoft, though it would have been so much better if every seat in a Delta Airline aircraft came equipped with a Surface 2 tablet for passengers to play around with while in flight.
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[via AllThingsD]