{"id":529492,"date":"2022-10-14T09:32:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T04:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=529492"},"modified":"2022-10-14T10:14:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T04:44:31","slug":"delta-air-lines-posts-695-million-profit-in-q3-sees-busy-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delta-air-lines-posts-695-million-profit-in-q3-sees-busy-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Air Lines posts $695 million profit in Q3, sees busy holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delta Air Lines reported a USD 695 million third-quarter profit Thursday as higher average fares this summer and a lucrative credit-card business more than offset higher fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>The airline forecast that revenue during the final three months of the year will top pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>Delta&#8217;s CEO said he sees no indication that anxiety over inflation and the economy will discourage people from travelling over the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a very strong holiday season Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year&#8217;s, said CEO Ed Bastian.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers are still relatively healthy. They have deferred spending, but where they have deferred it is the acquisition of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta Air Lines reported a USD 695 million third-quarter profit Thursday as higher average fares this summer and a lucrative credit-card business more than offset higher fuel prices. The airline forecast that revenue during the final three months of the year will top pre-pandemic levels. Delta&#8217;s CEO said he sees no indication that anxiety over inflation and the economy will discourage people from travelling over the holidays. It&#8217;s going to be a very strong holiday season Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year&#8217;s, said CEO Ed Bastian. Consumers are still relatively healthy. They have deferred spending, but where they have deferred it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}