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Delta Air Lines intends to resume its membership with A4A in 2020, more than 4 years after the carrier ditched the trade group amid policy disputes. Delta stepped away from A4A in Oct 2015, saying the US$5m it paid in annual dues would be best used to invest in the company. At the time, Delta was the lone US major airline opposed to A4A’s promotion of a plan to strip air traffic control from the FAA and place it under a private organisation. Delta reversed its position in 2017, supporting a privatisation effort led by president Donald Trump. ATC privatisation has so far failed. Delta also attributed its 2015 departure to A4A’s failure to back a campaign by Delta, American Airlines and United Airlines to convince the US govt to curtail expansion in the USA by Etihad Airways, Emirates Airlines and Qatar Airways. <br/>

Skin lesions. Fatigue. Migraines. Hair loss. These are a few of the symptoms that some Delta flight attendants say are being caused by the airline's stylish new uniforms. The affected workers say the new uniforms come with toxic chemicals that are causing a number of health problems among the airline's cabin crew. Delta, which has the largest group of nonunionised flight attendants in the US, has handled uniform complaints inconsistently, some employees say. Concerns over the uniforms, and the airline's handling of health scares, has helped fuel an organising drive among Delta employees working with the AFA. The AFA said it would collect and test uniform pieces to try to definitively answer what, if anything, is causing the health problems. <br/>