History: Remembering The Flights That Got Delta Air Lines Up & Running

Delta Air Lines can trace its roots back to March 2, 1925, when the Ariel Crop dusting company Huff Daland Dusters was founded in Macon, Georgia. Later the same year, crop dusters general manager C.E. Woolman moved the entire operation to Monroe, Louisiana, after a boll weevil infestation devastated the South’s cotton-growing industry.