Delta, Northwest consolidating at Port Columbus Tuesday - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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representatives said ’s check-in operations will move adjacentto Delta’ at Port Columbus effective Tuesday Atlanta-based Delta (NYSE:DAL), the airport’s second-busiest carrier this bought Eagan, Minn.-based Northwest last fall in a deal valuex at more than $3 billion. Alongf with the shift in Northwest’se check-in operations, the carrier is set to begin operatintg with Delta out ofthe airline’s Concourse C. Northwest had previously flown out ofConcourse B.
Delta in merginyg its operations with Northwest has saidno line-levelp employee cuts are expected to take Anthony Black, a Delta spokesman, said the two companiesx have a combined total of roughlyg 110 employees working behind the counter and on the tarmacf at Port Columbus. While Northwestf customers will begin checking in at the combinedDelta counter, the key step in combininyg the two airlines has yet to take Delta and Northwest require an operating certificate to act as a singlw carrier, a process scheduled to be complete by the end of the year acroses the U.S. and by the end of 2010 worldwide.
The timing of the operatinh certificate also coincides with the beginninyg of anew five-year lease term for the carrierx at Port Columbus.