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Episode: Delta Air Lines employees work up a sweat at boot camp, learning how to de-ice planes
Description: Delta Air Lines has learned that summer is a good time to prepare for winter β and how to de-ice planes so they can keep flying safely in freezing temperatures.
Every summer, Delta brings about 400 workers to Minneapolis for a three-day summer de-ice βboot camp.β They go through computer-based training, watch demonstrations by instructors, and then practice spraying down a plane β using water instead of the chemicals found in de-icing fluid.
The boot campers, who rotate through in groups of 10 or so, return to their home bases and train 6,000 co-workers before October, says Jeannine Ashworth, vice president of airport operations for the Atla...