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What Delta Air Lines predicts for business travel after the Omicron variant

What Delta Air Lines predicts for business travel after the Omicron variant

For Delta Air Lines, the Covid situation isn’t as grim as it could be. Its outlook on Thursday issued along with its fourth quarter 2021 earnings report calls for a profit of roughly $400 million for the second half of this year, and its CEO Ed Bastian noted that would make Delta “the only major U.S. airline to achieve second-half profitability.”

Delta still expects to lose money in the first quarter, but Q1 to be the only loss-making quarter of 2022. “We’re confident that we’ll generate a meaningful profit for the full year of 2022 as the recovery resumes and accelerates in the spring and the summer,” Bastian said on the earnings call.

Read more on CNBC.

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