At the Delta Museum, we are constantly using our extensive collection of timetables, or flight schedules. There’s so much info packed into one folder!
Covers add color and pop to exhibits – like this great one for Delta’s new service to New York in 1956. Over the years, we’ve featured awards, new aircraft and destinations, and even celebrities. Inside our early timetables, you find what cities Delta served and how long a particular flight was, but also fares, types of aircraft used and special services.
For more colorful Delta timetable covers through the decades since 1934, check out Air Times: A Collector’s Guide to Airline Timetables. To browse through some complete early timetables, see Airline Timetable Images.
Enjoy!
Marie Force
Archives Manager
August 5th, 2009 at 11:52 am
These are so much fun to look through. I have a couple of Western schedules from before they were part of Delta. I guess I should go look for them!
August 6th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Right after I wrote this blog, an amazing donation of early Northwest Airlines timetables came to the Delta Museum from Scott and Sandra Andersen. Scott is a former Northwest employee, who was responsible for compiling NW’s timetables. He saved the corporate timetable collection, dating from 1929-1970, when it was scheduled for discard, and has now donated it to the Delta Museum, where we are building a Northwest Corporate Archives in Atlanta.
Thank you, Scott and Sandra!
August 6th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Marie,
I think the Delta timetables from the 1950s are among my favorites–with the Flying D logo, and later the DC-8s. Can you publish a C&S timetable one of these days? Of all your merger partners, I think they tend to get overlooked.
Brian