Atlanta-Based Delta Shares News About Plans To Go Carbon Neutral, Employees’ Big Payday

Delta unveiled a plane with all 90,000 employees’ names painted on it. The airline says it’s a way to say thank you. That was just one of the announcements made recently by the airline.

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Valentine’s Day was especially robust for Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines.

The company announced Friday that it will be the first global airline to become completely carbon neutral. In a video posted to social media, Delta CEO Ed Bastian laid out an ambitious timeline for making it happen.

“We’ve committed, starting March 1, to fully offset our emissions — the footprint we create from our jet fuel and other emissions — our carbon footprint as an airline. We’ll be making investments. We estimate it’s going to be about a billion dollars over the next decade.”