Delta is providing more than 200,000 pounds of food to hospitals, community food banks and other organizations around the world to support people in need as well as those working tirelessly on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Delta is also offering free flights to medical professionals fighting COVID-19 in the hardest-hit areas of the U.S.; chartering international cargo-only flights to provide healthcare workers with materials needed to do their jobs; operating charters and specially approved scheduled flights to nations around the world to repatriate more than 28,000 people displaced by the virus to the U.S.; Manufacturing tens of thousands of face shields and masks at Delta Flight Products to aid healthcare workers; and partnering with the U.S. military to develop and manufacture secure, sterile transport pods at Delta TechOps, which will safely transit infected personnel to hospitals and medical centers.
Delta Air Lines has operated 16 charters to Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Italy, South Korea and Philippines to help repatriate nearly 4,000 Americans, and more flights are planned.