Delta Air Lines, which announced last month that it would fly healthcare workers to coronavirus hot spots free of charge, has announced another act of community service: It is donating 200,000 pounds of food to hospitals, community food banks and other groups to help feed people in need as well as those on the front lines of the pandemic.

The airline says it has a surplus of food due to a reduction in service and customers using its airport lounges.

"As a result, Delta has been left with food that would have expired before it could be served to customers," the carrier said in a press release posted to its website Tuesday. It said it is distributing the supplies through the Chicago-based nonprofit Feeding America, with whom it has a long relationship."

So far in 2020, Delta has donated over 200,000 pounds of perishable food items from warehouses to Feeding America partner agencies across the U.S. and other charities, including Georgia Food & Resource Center and Missouri's Carthage Crisis Center," the Atlanta-based carrier said.

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​The airline is also working with its food vendors, such as Sodexo, to provide food from its Sky Club lounges to first responders and charities in hard-hit communities like Philadelphia, Los Angeles and New York.

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Closer to home, Delta is working with local Atlanta chef Linton Hopkins to deliver meals to first responders at Emory University Hospital as well as local hospitality-industry employees who've lost work during the pandemic.

The airline is also sending boxed meals to its reservations and customer care centers, where employees are helping customers adapt their travel plans.

Delta, which has continued to cut flights since late January when the outbreak began in China, said last week that passengers who booked flights for April or May will have up to two years to rebook travel.

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