Elephants are scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Elephantidae is the only surviving family of the order Proboscidea; other, now extinct, members of the order include deinotheres, gomphotheres, mammoths, and mastodons.
This in part because Delta goes directly to Sitka, while the Alaska Airlines flight usually bobs, making a stop in Juneau or Ketchikan that eats up an extra hour.
Through partnerships with the SkyTeam alliance, passengers travelling on Delta Air Lines reservations through one of their international hubs have access to over 1,000 destinations. Delta has a large number of international flights to Asia, including flights to Vietnam, South Korea, and China.