ATLANTA, Oct. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta Air Lines'
(NYSE: DAL) Board of Directors today announced Ash Carter as its
newest member, effective immediately. Carter is Director of the
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard
Kennedy School and an Innovation Fellow at MIT. He served as U.S. Secretary of Defense from
2015 to 2017.
"Ash's distinguished career in government service and expertise
in global affairs, science and technology will be invaluable to
Delta," said Frank Blake, Delta's
non-executive chairman of the board.
"I am very pleased to be joining a special kind of enterprise
that combines excellent technology and people in complex global
operations," Secretary Carter said.
Secretary Carter has served directly and indirectly under 11
Secretaries of Defense in both Democratic and Republican
administrations. He served as Deputy Secretary of Defense from 2011
to 2013, functioning as the department's chief operating officer;
as Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and
Logistics from 2009 to 2011; and as Assistant Secretary of Defense
for International Security Policy from 1993 to 1996.
Outside of government service, Secretary Carter was most
recently a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and a
Senior Executive at the Markle Foundation.
He earned bachelor degrees at Yale
University and a doctorate in theoretical physics from
Oxford University, where he was a
Rhodes Scholar.
Delta Air Lines serves more than 180 million customers each
year. In 2017, Delta was named to Fortune's top 50 Most Admired
Companies in addition to being named the most admired airline for
the sixth time in seven years. Additionally, Delta has ranked No.1
in the Business Travel News Annual Airline survey for an
unprecedented six consecutive years. With an industry-leading
global network, Delta and the Delta Connection carriers offer
service to 311 destinations in 54 countries on six continents.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Delta
employs more than 80,000 employees worldwide and operates a
mainline fleet of more than 800 aircraft. The airline is a founding
member of the SkyTeam global alliance and participates in the
industry's leading transatlantic joint venture with Air
France-KLM and Alitalia as well as a joint venture with Virgin
Atlantic. Including its worldwide alliance partners, Delta offers
customers more than 15,000 daily flights, with key hubs and markets
including Amsterdam, Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles,
Mexico City, Minneapolis/St. Paul,
New York-JFK and LaGuardia, London-Heathrow, Paris-Charles de
Gaulle, Salt Lake City, Sao Paulo,
Seattle, Seoul, and Tokyo-Narita.
Delta has invested billions of dollars in airport facilities,
global products and services, and technology to enhance the
customer experience in the air and on the ground. Additional
information is available on the Delta News Hub, as well as
delta.com, Twitter @DeltaNewsHub, Google.com/+Delta, and
Facebook.com/delta.
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