0001683168-17-002723.txt : 20171023 0001683168-17-002723.hdr.sgml : 20171023 20171023164137 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001683168-17-002723 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20171023 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20171023 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20171023 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: DELTA AIR LINES INC /DE/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000027904 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: AIR TRANSPORTATION, SCHEDULED [4512] IRS NUMBER: 580218548 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-05424 FILM NUMBER: 171149299 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: HARTSFIELD-JACKSON ATLANTA INTL AIRPORT STREET 2: 1030 DELTA BOULEVARD CITY: ATLANTA STATE: GA ZIP: 30354-1989 BUSINESS PHONE: 4047152600 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: P.O. BOX 20706 STREET 2: DEPT 981 CITY: ATLANTA STATE: GA ZIP: 30320-6001 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: DELTA AIR CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19660908 8-K 1 delta_8k.htm FORM 8-K

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 23, 2017

DELTA AIR LINES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

001-05424

58-0218548

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

P.O. Box 20706, Atlanta, Georgia 30320-6001

(Address of principal executive offices)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (404) 715-2600

Registrant’s Web site address: www.delta.com

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR 230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR 240.12b-2).

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Item 5.02

Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers

On October 23, 2017, the Board of Directors of Delta Air Lines, Inc. (“Delta”) elected Ash Carter to Delta’s Board of Directors. The Board of Directors appointed Secretary Carter to serve on the Board’s Audit Committee and Safety and Security Committee. Secretary Carter will be compensated for his service as a director on the same basis as other non-employee directors of Delta.

A copy of Delta’s press release announcing Secretary Carter’s election to the Board of Directors is attached to this report as Exhibit 99.1.

Item 9.01

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

Exhibit 99.1

Press Release dated October 23, 2017 titled “Delta Board of Directors Names Ash Carter as Newest Member”

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	DELTA AIR LINES, INC.

	By: /s/ Peter W. Carter
Date: October 23, 2017	Peter W. Carter Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit Number	Description

Exhibit 99.1	Press Release dated October 23, 2017 titled “Delta Board of Directors Names Ash Carter as Newest Member”

EX-99.1 2 delta_ex9901.htm PRESS RELEASE

Exhibit 99.1

FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION

CONTACT:	Delta Corporate Communications
	404-715-2554
	media@delta.com

Delta Board of Directors Names Ash Carter as Newest Member

ATLANTA, October 23, 2017 – Delta Air Lines’ (NYSE: DAL) board of directors today announced Ash Carter as its newest member, effective immediately. Carter is Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, and an Innovation Fellow at MIT. He served as U.S. Secretary of Defense from 2015 to 2017.

“Ash’s distinguished career in government service and expertise in global affairs, science and technology will be invaluable to Delta,” said Frank Blake, Delta’s non-executive chairman of the board.

“I am very pleased to be joining a special kind of enterprise that combines excellent technology and people in complex global operations,” Secretary Carter said.

Secretary Carter also has served directly and indirectly under 11 Secretaries of Defense, in both Democratic and Republican administrations. He served as Deputy Secretary of Defense from 2011 to 2013, functioning as the department’s chief operating officer; as Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics from 2009 to 2011; and as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy from 1993 to 1996. Outside of government service, Secretary Carter was most recently a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a Senior Executive at the Markle Foundation.

He earned bachelor degrees at Yale University and a doctorate in theoretical physics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.