Exhibit 99.1


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                   DELTA AIR LINES AMENDS EXCHANGE OFFER FOR
          6.65 PERCENT NOTES DUE 2004 AND 7.70 PERCENT NOTES DUE 2005

ATLANTA, Aug. 13, 2003 - Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) today announced that it has
amended its exchange offer to qualified institutional buyers for its $300
million outstanding principal amount of its 6.65 percent Medium-Term Notes,
Series C due 2004 (the "2004 notes"), and $500 million outstanding principal
amount of its 7.70 percent Senior Notes due 2005 (the "2005 notes"). As a result
of such amendment, Delta has extended the expiration date for the exchange offer
until 5 p.m., New York City time, on Aug. 27, 2003, unless further extended.

         Delta is amending the consideration that it will deliver in the
exchange offer as follows:

         -        For each $1,000 principal amount of 2004 notes tendered,
                  Delta is offering to exchange $409.50 principal amount of its
                  new 10 percent Senior Notes due 2008 (the "new notes") and
                  $650 in cash.

         -        For each $1,000 principal amount of 2005 notes tendered,
                  Delta is offering to exchange $1,120 in principal amount of
                  new notes.

         All other terms of the exchange offer remain unchanged, except that the
withdrawal deadline has been changed from 5 p.m., New York City time, on Aug. 8,
2003 to 5 p.m., New York City time, on Aug. 20, 2003.

         As of Aug. 12, 2003, an aggregate principal amount of approximately
$24,846,000 and $89,770,000 of the 2004 notes and the 2005 notes, respectively,
has been tendered in the exchange offer and not withdrawn. Holders who have
already tendered their notes are not required to deliver any further
documentation or take any other action in order to receive the amended
consideration described above.

         The exchange offer is subject to customary conditions, including the
receipt of valid and unwithdrawn tenders of old notes that would result in
issuance of at least $200 million in aggregate principal amount of the new
notes.

         The new notes offered in the exchange offer will not be registered
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and will only be offered in the
United States to qualified institutional buyers in a private transaction. This



announcement is not an offer to exchange or a solicitation of an offer to
exchange with respect to any old notes, nor is this an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy any new notes in any state in which such offer,
solicitation or sale would be unlawful.

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