Delta Air Lines just donated another $3,000,000 to Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) this year, adding to an impressive total of $24.75 million for BCRF since 2005, funding 87 research projects. This donation parallels Delta Air Lines’ efforts to breast cancer awareness efforts, such as the Boeing 767-400ER livery pictured above.

A personal cause to Delta Air Lines’ employees

According to a Delta Air Lines statement, the operator's employees have considered it a personal mission to support breast cancer research. Especially as fellow employees are survivors of breast cancer. As Kristen Manion Taylor, Delta’s SVP of In-Flight Service and pictured to the left below, explained as a survivor,

“From when we started in 2005 to now in 2023 being able to donate $3 million dollars to the cause is amazing, and I know Delta has made a tremendous impact. And it means all the more to me as a survivor myself. I’ve seen firsthand the difference the research makes in the lives of those fighting the battle today and I could not be more grateful for the efforts of all the Delta employees.”

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But Kristen was not the only employee fundraising to research fighting breast cancer. For Atlanta-based flight attendant Robin Schmidt who set Delta Air Lines’ record at $46,804 – fundraising was a matter of supporting a friend fighting to survive breast cancer. As Robin tells it,

“When people ask me how I did it, I tell them that I just told my story. I was raising money for my friend and fellow flight attendant who was fighting breast cancer for the second time. I told my passengers that every penny they donated was to give her another breath here on earth, and I truly felt like I helped to save my friend’s life last year.”

Delta Air Lines has a breast cancer awareness 767-400ER

As analyzed in October 2022, Delta Air Lines has a “Pink Plane” with a breast cancer awareness ribbon painted alongside one of her 767-400ERs in N845MH. The aircraft, before its current pink ribbon scheme, was painted in pink shades as photographed below in September 2013;

Furthermore, according to ch-aviation.com, N845MH is a 767-432ER, to be precise. This Boeing 767 had its first flight on April 4, 2002, and delivery on April 15, 2002, for an age of 21.12 years. The seating configuration is 156 economy, 28 economy plus, 20 premium economy, and 34 business class for a total of 238 passenger seats. Each seat has in-flight entertainment and WiFi.

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The 767-400ER is also used annually on a Delta Air Lines employee + survivor flight. This year’s flight will be from Atlanta to Salt Lake City.

Finally, as of February 28, 2023, this 767-400ER has flown no less than 83,881 flight hours and 14,253 cycles or take-offs and landings together. On average, that’s 10 hours, 59 minutes of daily utilization, so yes, this 767-400ER gets around – although in recent months, such as April 2023, the monthly average is 08:50, and that’s a growing average as Delta Air Lines flies her to places like Paris, France tweeted above and Seattle, Washington State as pictured at the top.

Other airlines’ breast cancer awareness efforts

Yes, other airlines do work on breast cancer awareness. Allegiant Airlines, for instance, went pink in October 2020. Qatar Airways, for 2021’s breast cancer awareness efforts in October of that year, had amenity kits and even had an all-female crew draw a ribbon in the Qatari sky. Alaska Airlines has had pink scarves for breast cancer awareness also. That’s for starters.

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Source: ch-aviation.com