Delta Air Lines' low-cost Song to play on, expand.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: October 17, 2004 | Copyright information

By Kirsten Tagami, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 17--The people now running Delta Air Lines aren't crazy about the swirly lime-green paint scheme on jets flying for its Song discount unit.

Chief Executive Gerald Grinstein calls it "garish" and once said the unit ought to be named "Swan Song" because he thought the whole concept was questionable.

Yet Song not only survives in the Atlanta-based airline's...

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