Why Delta Air Lines’ Airbus A321neos Have Raccoon Masks But American & United’s Don’t

I met a Delta Air Lines

pilot in Atlanta a few years ago, who handed me a business card that he had created himself. Under the Delta logo and his name was his title, which was listed as “Trash Panda Wrangler.” I chuckled, knowing that it wasn’t his official title, but given that he is a captain on Delta’s Airbus A350 fleet, I also knew exactly how he had gotten it.

The A350 features an eye-catching black outline around its cockpit windows,…