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This beautiful poster has been re-mastered from an original 1960s advertising travel poster for Delta Airlines service to Jamaica.
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JAMAICA AND DELTA AIRLINES
JAMAICA
Jamaica is a democratic nation known for its global cultural impact (reggae music, athletics) and a developing tourism-driven economy.
Jamaica's history began with the indigenous Taíno people, who named the island "Xaymaca" (land of wood and water). Colonized by Spain in 1510, the island saw the destruction of the Taíno population and the introduction of African slavery. Captured by the British in 1655, Jamaica became a major sugar-producing colony, later gaining independence in 1962. The island was first settled around 600-800 AD by the "Redware people" and later the Arawak-speaking Taíno tribes. Christopher Columbus arrived in 1494, claiming the island for Spain. Spanish settlement began in 1510, with the capital established at Sevilla Nueva and later moved to Spanish Town.
DELTA AIRLINES
Delta Air Lines' history begins with the world's first aerial crop dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters, Inc. The company was founded on March 2, 1925, in Macon, Georgia, before moving to Monroe, Louisiana, in summer 1925. Delta Air Service was incorporated on December 3, 1928, and named after the Mississippi Delta region.
Passenger operations began on June 17, 1929, from Dallas, Texas, to Jackson, Mississippi, with stops at Shreveport and Monroe, Louisiana. Passenger service ceased in October 1930 when the airmail contract for the route Delta had pioneered was awarded to another airline, which purchased the assets of Delta Air Service. Local banker Travis Oliver, acting as a trustee, C.E. Woolman, and other local investors purchased back the crop-dusting assets of Delta Air Service and incorporated as Delta Air Corporation on December 31, 1930.
The company name officially became Delta Air Lines in 1945. In 1946, the company commenced regularly scheduled freight transport. In 1964, it launched the Deltamatic reservation systems using computers in the IBM 7070 series.
By 1970, Delta had an all-jet fleet, and in 1972 it acquired Northeast Airlines. Trans-Atlantic service began in 1978 with the first nonstop flights from Atlanta to London. In 1987, it acquired Western Airlines, and that same year Delta began trans-Pacific service (Atlanta-Portland, Oregon-Tokyo). In 1991, it acquired substantially all of Pan Am's trans-Atlantic routes and the Pan Am Shuttle, rebranded as the Delta Shuttle. Delta was now the leading airline across the Atlantic.
On September 14, 2005, the company filed for bankruptcy, citing rising fuel costs. It emerged from bankruptcy in April 2007 after fending off a hostile takeover from US Airways and its shares were re-listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
The acquisition of Northwest Airlines was announced April 14, 2008. Delta completed integration with Northwest on January 31, 2010, when their computer reservations system and websites were combined, and the Northwest Airlines brand was officially retired.
