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Delta’s profit down 29%; CEO sites low-cost carriers

July 20, 2024 The Associated Press

Americans are traveling in record numbers this summer. Still, Delta Air Lines said Thursday that its second-quarter profit dropped 29% due to higher costs and discounting of base-level fares across the industry. The airline also […]

Delta posts $735 million profit, sees strong revenue in Q3

July 14, 2022 David Koenig, Associated Press

Delta Air Lines said Wednesday that it earned $735 million in the second quarter, as packed planes and higher fares boosted revenue close to pre-pandemic levels. However, the profit fell short of Wall Street expectations, […]

MLB pulls All-Star Game, draft from Atlanta over Ga. voting law

April 3, 2021 The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Atlanta lost Major League Baseball’s summer All-Star Game on Friday over the league’s objections to sweeping changes to Georgia voting laws that critics — including the CEOs of Atlanta-based Delta Air […]

A $12 billion loss for 2020, Delta is cautious in early 2021

January 18, 2021 Dave Koenig, Associated Press

Delta Air Lines closed the books on a disastrous 2020 with a comparatively small fourth-quarter loss, and executives expect a few more rocky months before — they hope — widespread coronavirus vaccinations and testing might […]

Delta asks more workers to take leave as travel slump widens

December 11, 2020 The Associated Press

ATLANTA — Delta Air Lines has managed to avoid furloughs but is now asking more employees to take unpaid leaves of absence, a sign of the deepening slump in air travel as coronavirus cases increase […]