Delta’s Secret Trading Card program has a new design for its 100th anniversary – but you will have to ask your pilot to get it

• Delta has released a new series of trade cards “Centuries” to celebrate that he become the first US airplane to hit 100 years. Cards include a new design with company Boeing and Airbus Pilots and pilots will divide them to the passengers looking for them.

Delta is officially the first US airline that has been 100 years old, and renovates its semi-long trading program to celebrate the opportunity.

The airline has discovered a special centennial design on Tuesday with unique colors and marking that highlights the Delta fleet Boeing and Airbus aircraft. New cards will contain models such as A220-300, 717, 737-800, A321neo, 757-200, 767-300, A330-900 and A350.

On the back, each card includes details about speed, range, engine range, engine range, tail height and seats number, as well as a “fun fact” about the aircraft in the image on the card.

Pilots will usually get cards that coincide with the type of aircraft in which they fly (although they can also share cards from other planes) and are free to give them to any buyer he asks. Starting in April, customers can also get a set of two centenary limited editions when they buy a physical delta gift card online.

Although the tickets have been for two decades, they have seen again in recent years after a few Tictok videos of passengers who asked their ticket pilots virally. IN One such video With 2 million likes, the passenger asks the pilot for the card, and then asks her to sign it, to the surprise of the pilot.

Still, pilots usually want to give cards and communicate with passengers, captain of Delta Pilota Brian Ferguson previously said Wealth.

“About 30% of them are people in their twenties and thirties who will appear and ask for a card,” Ferguson said. “About half of them will appear and somehow look over their shoulders as if it were a secret and to go,” Hey, is that trading card reality? “

The Traring Card program began in 2003 with a limited edition with McDonnell Douglas MD-11, which was withdrawn in 2004. Delta has since expanded its trading card program to include seven series and 68 different cards.

However, not only Delta offers trade cards to passengers. Border pilots also hand over tickets to passengers containing endangered animals that decorate their aircraft tails.

Partly thanks to the recent re -rise of the Delta program, the pilots split 3 million carats in 2024, said Ryan Gumm, an older Vice President of Flight Operations Delta. As such, this year, the airline has written 5 million special, centennial tickets that will be divided, just in case.

“This simple but yet impressive interaction between our pilots and customers raises and enriches the flight experience – and has created significant relationships and unforgettable moments along the way,” Gumm said in a statement.

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