Deltalina

Katherine Lee
Katherine Lee in 2015
Born	Katherine Lee 1974/1975 (age 42–43) Heidelberg, Germany
Nationality	American
Occupation	Flight Attendant, Flight Attendant Instructor for Delta Airlines
Years active	1997–present
Home town	Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Katherine Lee, better known as Deltalina, is an American flight attendant for Delta Air Lines and since 2008 is one of the presenters of Delta's onboard safety videos. The first Deltalina safety video was released in February 2008 and quickly became popular not only on board but also became one of the most-watched videos on YouTube soon after its release.

The original, unorthodox 2008 safety video made the news in the United States (for example, in USA Today, CNN, Wired), Netherlands (De Telegraaf) and Belgium (De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad), most articles noting that the unusual humor might make passengers pay more attention to the video.

Martin Grant of Forbes wrote in 2012 that the Deltalina video was the first of the "next generation of safety video" and that the "talents" of Deltalina "largely helped" this.

This video however, was panned (in the book How to Do Things With Videogames) by Ian Bogost because, in Bogost's opinion, the attention that is paid to the videos is given to Lee-Hinton and not to the actual safety instructions, that the video made her into "a minor celebrity", that "In a weird historical inversion, this very much is your father's Pan Am."

In late 2012, Delta Air Lines made two new safety videos in which Lee-Hinton is not the presenter, but in which she does appear in a cameo role, admonishing against smoking on board with her famous finger wag. This flight attendant had started to return to the public in May 2015. However, starting in June 2016, the video was no longer displayed as part of the reboot of the Delta safety videos.

Lee was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, to a Puerto Rican father (died in December 2013) and an American mother. Her father was in the military, and the family moved around a lot. Lee graduated from Stone Mountain High School in Metro Atlanta in 1992.