Retired Delta Pilots to Receive a Total of $800 Million in Claims to Help Recoup Lost Pension Benefits

ATLANTA, Nov. 27, 2006 – Delta Air Lines today announced that working with DP3, Inc., the group representing a majority of Delta’s retired pilots before the bankruptcy court, it has secured the support of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors to allow an additional estimated $719 million in unsecured, pre-petition claims for non-qualified pension benefits for its retired pilots. Together with claims already approved in a prior settlement with DP3, retired Delta pilots and their beneficiaries now will have a total of approximately $800 million in allowed claims.

“We are extremely pleased that our work with these groups to secure claims to improve pension benefit recoveries for our retired pilots was successful. As a result of this effort, our retired pilots will recover through the claim process a significant portion of their unpaid non-qualified benefits,” said Edward H. Bastian, Delta’s chief financial officer.

The agreement, subject to bankruptcy court approval, allows these general unsecured claims in the Delta bankruptcy cases and calculates the present value using factors that are favorable to retired pilots taking all considerations into account.

These “post-termination claims” arise from the period on and after the expected Sept. 2, 2006 termination date of the non-qualified pilot pension plans. Once the individual calculations are completed, they are expected to add up to approximately $719 million. Earlier this year, these parties reached agreement on “pre-termination claims” totaling approximately $80 million for the period between Delta’s chapter 11 filing in September of 2005 up to Sept. 2, 2006.

Together, retired pilots are expected to be awarded allowed claims on account of unpaid nonqualified pension benefits of approximately $800 million, $9 million of which will be administrative in nature, with the balance being general, unsecured, pre-petition claims.

“This agreement represents another important milestone in what we believe is shaping up to be a very successful transformation of Delta, and we remain focused on proceeding with our plan to emerge from bankruptcy in the first half of 2007 as an independent, stand-alone company,” Bastian said.

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