Exhibit 5.3
 | Delta Air Lines, Inc. Department 981 Post Office Box 20574 Atlanta, GA 30320-2574 |
March 6, 2019
Delta Air Lines, Inc.
1030 Delta Boulevard
Atlanta, Georgia 30354
Re: Delta Air Lines, Inc. Pass Through Certificates
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I am Assistant General Counsel of Delta Air Lines, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and have acted as such in connection with the Registration Statement on FormS-3 filed March 6, 2019 (the “Registration Statement”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), including the base prospectus contained therein (the “Prospectus”), relating to the proposed issuance from time to time of one or more classes of pass through certificates of the Company (the “Pass Through Certificates”). The Pass Through Certificates will be issued under the Pass Through Trust Agreement, dated as of November 16, 2000 (the “Pass Through Trust Agreement”), between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust National Association (as successor to State Street Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut, National Association), as Pass Through Trustee for the trust relating to each class of Pass Through Certificates (being referred to herein individually as the “Trustee”), to be supplemented for each class of Pass Through Certificates by a Trust Supplement, to the Pass Through Trust Agreement between the Company and the Trustee (each a “Trust Supplement”).
In so acting, I or other counsel under the general supervision of the Chief Legal Officer of the Company have examined the Registration Statement and the Pass Through Trust Agreement and have also examined and relied upon the representations and warranties contained therein or made pursuant thereto, and on certificates of officers of the Company and of public officials as to factual matters, and upon the originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified to my satisfaction, of such records, documents and other instruments as in my judgment are necessary or advisable to enable me to render the opinion expressed below. In all such examinations, I have assumed the genuineness of all signatures (other than those on behalf of the Company), the legal capacity of natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to me as originals and the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to me as certified or photostatic copies, and as to certificates and telegraphic and telephonic confirmations given by public officials, I have assumed the same to have been properly given and to be accurate.
Based on the foregoing and subject to the assumptions and qualifications set forth below, I am of the following opinion:
1. The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.
2. The Company has the corporate power and authority under Delaware law to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Pass Through Trust Agreement and the Trust Supplements.
3. The Pass Through Trust Agreement and the Trust Supplements have been duly authorized and the Pass Through Trust Agreement has been validly executed and delivered by the Company.
The opinions expressed herein are limited in all respects to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the applicable provisions of the Delaware Constitution, and the reported judicial decisions interpreting these laws, and the federal laws of the United States, except that I express no opinion with respect to the antitrust, bankruptcy, environmental, securities or tax laws of any jurisdiction, and no opinion is expressed with respect to the laws of any other jurisdiction or any effect which such law may have on the opinions expressed herein.
This opinion letter is limited to the matters stated, and no opinion is implied or may be inferred beyond those opinions expressly stated herein. The opinions expressed herein are rendered only as of the date hereof, and I assume no responsibility to advise you of changes in law, facts, circumstances, events or developments which hereafter may be brought to my attention and which may alter, affect or modify such opinions. In connection with the issuance of the Pass Through Certificates, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP may receive a copy of this letter and rely on the opinions set forth herein.
I hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement filed on the date hereof and incorporated by reference therein, and the reference to my name under the caption “Validity of Pass Through Certificates” in the Prospectus. In giving such consent, I do not thereby concede that I am within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the 1933 Act or the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder.
| Very truly yours, |
| /s/ Alan T. Rosselot |
| Assistant General Counsel |