KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Changes by Delta Airlines mean one less flight in and out of McGhee Tyson Airport.

Delta announced Wednesday it will stop using Memphis as a hub of operations and will cut flights to Memphis by 30%.

Becky Huckaby, spokeswoman for McGhee Tyson Airport, said one of those flights being eliminated serves Knoxville.

Huckaby said Memphis is traditionally less of a destination for Knoxville travelers, more often a
connecting point for other flights.

The change will be coming in September.

Delta told employees that the move comes because Memphis is not profitable as a hub.

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Greensboro, NC — Four Delta Airlines flights heading to Atlanta Wednesday night were redirected, leaving hundreds of people waiting at PTI Airport.

Russell Cason, spokesman for Delta Airlines, said the airline had to divert a total of 31 flights to cities across the Southeast as severe storms passed over Atlanta.

Delta sent planes to Charlotte, Knoxville, Asheville, Savannah, and several other locations in the region.

The storms lasted about an hour, and flights into and out of Atlanta were able to get back on schedule without much delay.

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Posted: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:47 am

Delta airlines to bring more jobs to the Range

By BILL HANNA
Mesabi Daily News

Grand Rapids Herald-Review

CHISHOLM — Delta Airlines CEO Richard Anderson wants “to put together a long-term hiring plan” for the company’s reservations center in Chisholm that would increase the facility’s employment, which is now about 500 full-time equivalents.

And he wants to do so soon.

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(Memphis) After September 3, Memphis will no longer be a hub for Delta Airlines.

This will mean the loss of 230 jobs.

According to Delta, “Despite a series of adjustments in recent years, high fuel costs and the predominant use of inefficient 50-seat regional jets in a small local-traffic market have made Memphis unprofitable as a hub. As we work to find the right level of service, the fall 2013 Memphis schedule will be reduced to approximately 60 daily flights.”

Delta plans to offer jobs elsewhere to those affected, “There are positions available for every eligible employee who stands to be affected by the schedule reduction at other locations across the system. Additionally, we have created a voluntary 55-point retirement package for MEM-based ACS and Cargo employees. We will also insource all ramp work beginning September 3.”

Commissioner Chris Thomas told us, “I’m very speechless and disappointed in this. I’m not really surprised because they’ve been cutting flights but this will hurt our economy and our image.”

Commissioner Terry Roland, “We need to get a lower price airline in here anyway. Delta has had a monopoly and I think if we can do something to get another airline it here it will bring the cost of flying.”

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) –

Despite a series of adjustments in recent years, high fuel costs and the predominant use of
inefficient 50-seat regional jets in a small local-traffic market have made Memphis unprofitable as a hub. As we work to find the right level of service, the fall 2013 Memphis schedule will be reduced to approximately 60 daily flights. This will unfortunately require a reduction of approximately 230 Memphis Airport Customer Service and Delta Cargo positions effective September 3.

FULL STATEMENT:
http://content.foxtvmedia.com/whbq/GilTonyMemotoMEMACSCGOemployeesFINAL.PDF

There are positions available for every eligible employee who stands to be affected by the schedule reduction at other locations across the system. Additionally, we have created a voluntary 55-point retirement package for MEM-based ACS and Cargo employees. We will also insource all ramp work beginning September 3. There will be many moving parts as the reduction process plays out through the summer.

Whether or not your job will be affected depends on what your seniority will
hold once we know how many take the 55-point retirement option.

Eligible employees will soon be provided with a packet that contains details of your options,
including a voluntary retirement package, transfer options with relocation assistance or furlough with severance pay. There is also a QA document that will answer many of your early questions.

We know you’ll study these options carefully and please know that your leadership will be available to help you determine what is right for you and your families.

Delta has a tradition of taking care of its people and especially when the tough realities of our
business present themselves. You have our shared commitment that your questions and concerns will be addressed in the weeks ahead. Please take advantage of the resources you’ll have access to with ACS, Cargo and HR leaders in Memphis today and through the summer.
The new schedule will preserve nearly all the top destinations for Memphis customers. The biggest piece of the schedule reduction is 50-seat regional jet flying, as those aircraft begin to come out of the fleet.

We appreciate your professionalism and understanding of this tough business decision.

Gil Tony

By Alwyn Scott

(Reuters) – Delta Air Lines wants the U.S. Export-Import Bank to stop helping state-owned foreign airlines buy wide-body jets from Boeing Co , and would be willing to forgo such support for its own purchases of smaller jets if all such subsidies were eliminated, the chief executive said on Wednesday.

“We would be perfectly willing, if we had a total moratorium on narrow-body and wide-body financing, to forego” export credit help on narrow-body jet purchases, Delta CEO Richard Anderson said in an interview with Reuters.

“We are trying to do whatever we can to get a level playing field in a world where my government decides that they would rather have my competitors in the marketplace than Delta,” he added.

He said airlines with good credit can get market-rate funding without “giving them the balance sheet of the U.S. government.”

Last month Delta sued the Ex-Im bank to stop such support of wide-body jet sales, affecting Boeing’s 777 and 787 planes, noting especially Emirates airline and Korean Air as among the biggest buyers who do not need U.S. government support. Delta was joined in the lawsuit by the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents 47,000 pilots at 28 U.S. airlines, and Hawaiian Airlines, the largest carrier in Hawaii.

In the interview, Anderson said he is not opposed to the Ex-Im Bank in general, or export credits for sales of smaller, narrow-body jets if the export credit system was reformed.

But he said it was wrong for the U.S. to decide that manufacturers such as Boeing are more deserving of export credits than airlines and other travel services companies.

“I don’t think there is any good rationale for deciding that any manufacturing production in the U.S. is more important than travel and tourism, which is a much bigger contributor to GDP in the U.S. than manufacturing,” he said.

In its lawsuit, Delta says that about 46 percent of the $106.6 billion in U.S. Ex-Im Bank’s current financial commitments are for aircraft loans or loan guarantees.

(Reporting by Alwyn Scott; Editing by Bernard Orr)