ATLANTA, Nov. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta Air Lines
(NYSE: DAL) today reported operating performance for October 2018. The company carried 16.5 million
customers across its broad global network, a record for the month
of October.
Monthly highlights include:
- Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the Delta-Northwest
merger, providing Delta with the scope and scale to create a
durable business capable of investing in its people, products, and
service
- Taking the first U.S. delivery of the efficient A220-100, the
latest investment in Delta's fleet modernization program with
inaugural flights on top domestic business routes set to begin in
January
- Announcing new international routes including Boston-Edinburgh and Boston-Lisbon
to begin in Summer 2019 and proposed Minneapolis/St. Paul-Shanghai service to begin in 2020 pending
governmental approvals
- Inducting the first engine into the new state-of-the-art engine
repair shop, where maintenance will be performed on the most
sophisticated and advanced engines
The company's operating performance is detailed in the table
below.
Delta Air Lines serves more than 180 million customers each
year. In 2018, Delta was named to Fortune's top 50 Most Admired
Companies in addition to being named the most admired airline for
the seventh time in eight years. Additionally, Delta has ranked
No.1 in the Business Travel News Annual Airline survey for an
unprecedented seven consecutive years. With an industry-leading
global network, Delta and the Delta Connection carriers offer
service to 302 destinations in 52 countries on six continents.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Delta
employs more than 80,000 employees worldwide and operates a
mainline fleet of more than 800 aircraft. The airline is a founding
member of the SkyTeam global alliance and participates in the
industry's leading transatlantic joint venture with Air
France-KLM and Alitalia as well as a joint venture with Virgin
Atlantic. Including its worldwide alliance partners, Delta offers
customers more than 15,000 daily flights, with key hubs and markets
including Amsterdam, Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Los
Angeles, Mexico City,
Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York-JFK
and LaGuardia, London-Heathrow, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Salt Lake City, São Paulo, Seattle, Seoul, and Tokyo-Narita.
Delta has invested billions of dollars in airport facilities,
global products and services, and technology to enhance the
customer experience in the air and on the ground. Additional
information is available on the Delta News Hub, as well as
delta.com, Twitter @DeltaNewsHub and Facebook.com/delta.
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Monthly Traffic
Results
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Year to Date
Traffic Results
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Oct
2018
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Oct
2017
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Change
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Oct
2018
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Oct
2017
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Change
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RPMs
(000):
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Domestic
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11,988,215
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11,610,864
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3.2%
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118,874,016
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113,476,086
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4.8%
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International
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6,793,738
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6,686,032
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1.6%
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71,906,737
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71,353,393
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0.8%
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Latin
America
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1,309,239
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1,334,609
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(1.9%)
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16,938,450
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17,380,452
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(2.5%)
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Atlantic
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3,848,929
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3,642,975
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5.7%
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37,853,937
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36,476,974
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3.8%
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Pacific
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1,635,570
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1,708,448
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(4.3%)
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17,114,350
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17,495,967
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(2.2%)
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Total
System
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18,781,953
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18,296,896
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2.7%
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190,780,753
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184,829,479
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3.2%
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ASMs
(000):
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Domestic
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13,950,090
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13,329,798
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4.7%
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139,094,518
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132,248,737
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5.2%
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International
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8,015,425
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7,954,956
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0.8%
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83,711,840
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83,301,423
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0.5%
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Latin
America
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1,589,517
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1,583,360
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0.4%
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19,721,447
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19,973,270
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(1.3%)
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Atlantic
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4,471,014
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4,381,852
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2.0%
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44,200,292
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43,085,367
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2.6%
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Pacific
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1,954,893
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1,989,744
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(1.8%)
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19,790,101
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20,242,786
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(2.2%)
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Total
System
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21,965,515
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21,284,754
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3.2%
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222,806,358
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215,550,160
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3.4%
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Load
Factor:
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Domestic
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85.9%
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87.1%
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(1.2)
Pts
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85.5%
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85.8%
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(0.3)
Pts
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International
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84.8%
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84.0%
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0.8 Pts
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85.9%
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85.7%
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0.2 Pts
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Latin
America
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82.4%
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84.3%
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(1.9)
Pts
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85.9%
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87.0%
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(1.1)
Pts
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Atlantic
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86.1%
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83.1%
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3.0 Pts
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85.6%
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84.7%
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0.9 Pts
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Pacific
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83.7%
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85.9%
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(2.2)
Pts
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86.5%
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86.4%
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0.1 Pts
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Total
System
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85.5%
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86.0%
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(0.5)
Pts
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85.6%
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85.7%
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(0.1)
Pts
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Mainline
Completion Factor
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99.92%
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99.97%
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(0.05)
Pts
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Mainline On-time
Performance
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90.0%
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89.4%
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0.6 Pts
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(preliminary DOT A14)
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Passengers
Boarded
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16,547,515
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16,180,826
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2.3%
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161,730,638
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157,123,260
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2.9%
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Cargo Ton Miles
(000):
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191,225
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196,917
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(2.9%)
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1,841,895
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1,803,253
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2.1%
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