Comments on: 80 Years Serving Atlanta! http://blog.delta.com/2010/06/11/80-years-serving-atlanta/ Tue, 07 May 2013 18:19:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Marie Force http://blog.delta.com/2010/06/11/80-years-serving-atlanta/comment-page-1/#comment-5561 Marie Force Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:01:07 +0000 http://blog.delta.com/?p=8163#comment-5561 FLL global: Thanks for catching my misreading of the plane vs. rail fares in the 1930 news clipping and letting us know!

]]> By: FLL global http://blog.delta.com/2010/06/11/80-years-serving-atlanta/comment-page-1/#comment-5550 FLL global Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:38:19 +0000 http://blog.delta.com/?p=8163#comment-5550 Congratulations to Delta on this important milestone! My personal way of putting it in perspective is that Delta commenced operations at Candler Field exactly 3 weeks to the day after my mother was born (Harvey Milk, too), which seems to truly make Delta’s Atlanta presence a lifetime.

One detail from the article in the Atlanta Journal… I believe Gene Hinton suggests that the price of a Delta air ticket to Birmingham was more costly than the train, by 50% (“about half again as much as railroad and Pullman”). That suggests that a train ticket at the time was approximately $6.50. Still, Delta was a bargain and a timesaver.

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