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A Delta Airlines plane flipped upon arrival at Toronto's Pearson Airport and ended up on its roof Monday, injuring 19 people including three who are in critical condition. The airport confirmed on X that an "incident" occurred with the Delta flight from Minneapolis and that 76 passengers and four crew are accounted for. Delta said in a statement the accident happened at 3:30 pm. Video from the scene shows the Mitsubishi CRJ-900LR upside down on the snowy tarmac as emergency workers hose it down. The plane was somewhat obscured by snow from a winter storm that hit Toronto over the weekend. Ornge air ambulance said it was transporting one paediatric patient to Toronto's SickKids hospital and two adults with critical injuries to other hospitals in the city. "Emergency teams are responding," the airport said in a post on the social platform X. "All passengers and crew are accounted for." It is too early to say what caused the plane to flip but weather may have played a factor. Accordi

Two workers were killed and another injured in an explosion early Tuesday at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport. Delta said it was working with local authorities to investigate what happened. WSB-TV reported that a tire on a plane exploded, killing one Delta employee and a contract worker. The television station cited unnamed sources. Several Atlanta fire units and police responded to the maintenance hangar near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport shortly after 5 a.m., The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. The Delta family is heartbroken at the loss of two team members and the injury of another following an incident this morning at the Atlanta Technical Operations Maintenance facility," Delta said in a statement. We have extended our full support to family members and colleagues during this incredibly difficult time. Delta thanked first responders and medical teams. We are now working with local authorities and conducting a full ...

Delta Air Lines is facing a class action lawsuit, which claims the airline refused to give refunds following a global technology outage last month. Among airlines, Delta was by far the hardest hit hard by the outage, having to cancel thousands of flights, because key systems were crippled by the incident. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in the US District Court Northern District of Georgia Atlanta Division on behalf of Delta customers impacted by the outage. In it, the customers allege that Delta refused or ignored their requests for prompt refunds for their cancelled or delayed flights. The complaint also claims Delta didn't provide all impacted passengers with meal, hotel, and ground transportation vouchers and continues to refuse or ignore requests for reimbursements of those unexpected expenses. These unfair, unlawful, and unconscionable practices resulted in Delta unjustly enriching itself at the expense of its customers, the lawsuit states. The complaint states the plaintiffs

Delta CEO Ed Bastian said last week the outage had cost the US airline $500 million

Delta has offered no timetable for when normal operations would resume and has already canceled another 137 flights for Monday, according to FlightAware

Delta has orders for 100 Max 10 planes and options to purchase 30 more, and had expected to begin receiving the planes next year

Carriers are struggling to ramp up capacity and get operations back on a smoother track, resulting in higher operational costs

US reported that inflation in the past year rose at its fastest pace in more than four decades, led by soaring fuel costs, which is the second largest input costs for airlines after labour

United Airlines said it has suspended flying over Russian airspace, joining other major US carriers who have taken the step after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Air India, which serves four US destinations with Boeing 777s, said those flights would be curtailed or face changes in aircraft type starting from Wednesday.

Delta remains the lone holdout among the largest U.S. airlines when it comes to requiring employee vaccination against Covid-19

Back-to-front boarding is also twice as risky as letting passengers on at random.

Labor will be the biggest single cost for airlines struggling to weather the coronavirus crisis that has crushed air travel demand

Carriers reduce flight capacity and shore up capital while warning that tens of thousands of jobs could be at risk as industry braces for a slow recovery.

The United States had threatened to bar Chinese passenger flights on June 16 due to Beijing's curbs on US airlines

He did not rule out direct conversations with individual airlines in the coming days

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