---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-24-002742"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DAL"
cik: "0000027904"
company_name: "DELTA AIR LINES, INC."
filed_at: "2024-04-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T06:46:22.357292+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Delta Air Lines elects Maria Black (ADP CEO) and Willie Chiang (Plains CEO) to board

## Summary
- Board elected Maria Black (President/CEO of ADP) and Willie Chiang (Chairman/CEO of Plains All American) effective April 26, 2024.
- Committee assignments to be determined at a later date.
- Both will be compensated on the same basis as other non-employee directors per Delta's 2024 proxy statement.
- Black brings technology/HCM expertise; Chiang brings energy industry experience.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-24-002742
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DAL
- cik: 0000027904
- company_name: DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-04-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27904/000168316824002742/0001683168-24-002742-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27904/000168316824002742/delta_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-24-002742
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-24-002742.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-24-002742.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Willie CW Chiang was elected as Director at DELTA AIR LINES, INC..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 25, 2024, the Board of Directors of Delta Air Lines, Inc. (“Delta”) elected Maria Black and Willie CW Chiang to Delta’s Board of Directors, effective April 26, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27904/000168316824002742/0001683168-24-002742-index.htm
- Executive change
  Maria Black was elected as Director at DELTA AIR LINES, INC..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 25, 2024, the Board of Directors of Delta Air Lines, Inc. (“Delta”) elected Maria Black and Willie CW Chiang to Delta’s Board of Directors, effective April 26, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27904/000168316824002742/0001683168-24-002742-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.