Delta Air has become the number one corporate blood donor blood to American Red Cross blood drives across the system for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018.
The airline’s employees, retirees and customers donated a record 11,085 pints of blood, an increase of 18 percent from the previous year. The airline reported on its news hub.
According to the report published on its news hub, this unprecedented record moves Delta to the number one spot for corporate blood donations in the United States, marking the most successful year since the airline’s partnership with the humanitarian organization began in 1941. Delta was number 10 on the corporate sponsor list just five years ago.
“The dedication of our Delta blood donors and blood drive coordinators continues to grow stronger year after year, and there is no better indicator than the numbers — 11,085 pints of blood donated and the potential to save more than 33,000 lives,” said Delta air, Managing Director, Community Engagement, Tad Hutcheson.
This year the airline hosted 214 blood drives in 36 locations, including the Red Cross’s largest blood drive in the country hosted at Delta’s Technical Operations Center in Atlanta. The airline also added inaugural drives in Augusta, Ga., Charlotte, N.C., Mobile, Ala., Norfolk, Va., San Francisco, Calif., and Washington, D.C., expanding support to more communities where Delta people live, work and serve.
Delta is also a donor to the Annual Disaster Giving Programme at the $1 million level, which helps to enable the Red Cross to be strategic and proactive in disaster response. The company is also a title sponsor of the Red Cross’s 2018 Sound the Alarm campaign which installed over 100,000 smoke alarms in homes throughout the country last spring. The Red Cross is Delta’s longest standing not-for-profit partnership dating back to WWII.
