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Business Wars Daily

Delta Emerges as Best, Largest Airline; American as Worst

Business Wars Daily

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Business, Business News, News, Daily News

4.6717 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today is Thursday, January 23, and we’re looking at Delta vs. American.

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From Wondery, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on Thursday, January 23rd.

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If you're planning to travel much this year, we're betting that you may consider a different airline than you have in the past, namely Delta. That's because,

1:18.4

with the Boeing Max 737 grounded indefinitely, rival airlines have had to cancel tens of thousands

1:24.5

of flights, but Delta had never purchased any of the trouble planes.

1:29.1

A decision CEO Ed Bastian is surely happy about. As well he should be, Delta's earnings

1:35.1

jumped 21% over 2018. Revenues climbed 6% to 47 billion, making it the world's largest airline

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by revenue. Bastion called 2019 the best year

1:46.9

in the company's history. Its performance was so good that it surprised Wall Street analysts,

1:52.3

some of whom had not been upbeat about Delta toward the end of the year. That shiny earnings report

1:57.4

came out on January 14th. The next day, Bastion claimed another New Year's

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