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Airbus A330-300 Delta Air Lines

Registration: N822NW Type: A330-302 Engines: 2 × GE CF6-80E1A4 Serial Number: 1627 First flight: Apr 24, 2015

The history of Delta Air Lines began in 1925, when it was founded under the name Huff Daland Dusters. In 1928, the company was renamed Delta Air Service, and in 1945 – Delta Air Lines. The airline began passenger operations in 1929, and its first route was flights from Dallas, Texas to Jackson, Mississippi. Delta Air Lines currently serves 214 domestic and 97 international destinations in 59 countries.

As of December 2024, Delta Air Lines has a fleet of 984 aircraft, making it one of the largest commercial airlines in the world. Delta's total fleet includes more than 80 Airbus A330 aircraft, of which 33 are A330–300 aircraft used for long-haul flights.

Delta received most of the Airbus A330 airliners at the end of October 2008, as a result of the merger with Northwest Airlines. That year, the company's fleet was replenished with thirty-two aircraft models -200 and -300. Only seven years later, in 2015, Delta began expanding its A330 fleet, and the first of them was the aircraft with registration N822NW, pictured on our poster. It is noteworthy that the registration numbers of the new aircraft retained the ending "NW", inherited from Northwest. The average age of the airline's A330-300 is 16.1 years. Today, Airbus A330 aircraft continue to arrive in the company's fleet, but these are new-generation A330-900 aircraft.

Delta operates the A330-300 primarily on routes to Europe. Major European cities such as London, Paris and Amsterdam are among the company's busiest destinations.

Airbus A330-300 Qantas Airways

Registration: VH-QPB Named: Tennant Creek Type: A330-303 Engines: 2 × GE CF6-80E1A3 Serial Number: 558 First flight: Oct 10, 2003

Qantas Airways is Australia's flagship airline and the largest airline in terms of fleet size, number of international flights and destinations. Founded in November 1920 and started operating international passenger flights in May 1935, it is the third oldest operating airline in the world. The airline is based in Mascot, near its main airport, Sydney, and is one of the founders of the Oneworld alliance.

The airline is popularly known as The Flying Kangaroo. The history of this symbol dates back to 1944, after the route across the Indian Ocean was officially named the Kangaroo Route, and the profile of this Australian endemic was painted on board under the cockpit of a Consolidated LB-30 Liberator I aircraft.

Qantas chose this name to refer to commercial passenger air routes running between Australia and the United Kingdom through the Eastern Hemisphere because of its similarity to the unique way kangaroos travel. By today's standards, the short flights of aircraft of that era resembled kangaroo jumps and were used to cover long distances. Today, this phrase is a trademark of the airline and is traditionally used by Qantas for all flights from Australia to the UK.

The initial design of the new brand was based on the silhouette of a kangaroo depicted on an Australian penny coin. In 1947, the kangaroo "grew" wings, and the popular name "Flying Kangaroo" was fixed for it. The kangaroo silhouette acquired its modern look in 2016.