This morning, Delta Air Lines issued its monthly financial and operating performance report. It’s a typical press release with some mundane financial information. What caught my eye?
It’s rare enough for an airline to operate its entire published schedule for a couple of days. But that is a 100 percent completion factor for the entire month of September. As the resident ops guy here at Boadingarea, all I can say is that’s really something.
Logo image courtesy of Delta Air Lines
[…] for the quarter are not enough as notice from last month income is down despite, as my fellow BoardingArea blogger MJ on Travel highlighted that they had a stunning 100% completion of all mainline […]
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Even more amazing is there was not one cut to SkyMiles in September. For Delta to go one month without cutting the loyalty program is even MORE amazing that 100% completion!