Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines is threading a needle: defending its DEI initiatives as merit-based “people initiatives” that are core to its bus

Delta Air Lines is offering to pay $30,000 each to passengers on Delta Connection Flight 4819 that crashed while landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon. The Atlanta-based airline confirmed the amount Wednesday afternoon.

A Delta Air Lines flight to Columbia, South Carolina, was forced to return to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday morning after a "haze" was observed inside the plane, according to officials.

A Delta Air Lines flight was forced to return to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday after a “haze” filled the cabin, the airline said.  Read More

A Delta Air Lines flight had to return to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after the flight crew reported a “haze” in the cabin. The crew on Delta Flight 876 to Columbia, S.C. noticed the haze shortly after takeoff.

This marks the second smoke-related issue to impact a Delta flight within a week, just two days after an Australia-bound flight returned to Los Angeles due to smoke on the plane.

Delta flight returns to Atlanta after crew reports smoke in cabin, all 94 passengers safely evacuated via emergency slides with no injuries reported.

Delta Air Lines has faced a series of unsettling incidents recently, including smoke or haze in the cabin on two flights and a separate crash that injured more than 20 people.