Delta Reports Operating Performance for October 2018

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Nov 02, 2018, 09:51 ET

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.

			Monthly Traffic Results			Year to Date Traffic Results


			Oct 2018	Oct 2017	Change	Oct 2018	Oct 2017	Change

RPMs (000):
	Domestic		11,988,215	11,610,864	3.2%	118,874,016	113,476,086	4.8%
	International		6,793,738	6,686,032	1.6%	71,906,737	71,353,393	0.8%
		Latin America	1,309,239	1,334,609	(1.9%)	16,938,450	17,380,452	(2.5%)
		Atlantic	3,848,929	3,642,975	5.7%	37,853,937	36,476,974	3.8%
		Pacific	1,635,570	1,708,448	(4.3%)	17,114,350	17,495,967	(2.2%)
	Total System		18,781,953	18,296,896	2.7%	190,780,753	184,829,479	3.2%


ASMs (000):
	Domestic		13,950,090	13,329,798	4.7%	139,094,518	132,248,737	5.2%
	International		8,015,425	7,954,956	0.8%	83,711,840	83,301,423	0.5%
		Latin America	1,589,517	1,583,360	0.4%	19,721,447	19,973,270	(1.3%)
		Atlantic	4,471,014	4,381,852	2.0%	44,200,292	43,085,367	2.6%
		Pacific	1,954,893	1,989,744	(1.8%)	19,790,101	20,242,786	(2.2%)
	Total System		21,965,515	21,284,754	3.2%	222,806,358	215,550,160	3.4%


Load Factor:
	Domestic		85.9%	87.1%	(1.2) Pts	85.5%	85.8%	(0.3) Pts
	International		84.8%	84.0%	0.8 Pts	85.9%	85.7%	0.2 Pts
		Latin America	82.4%	84.3%	(1.9) Pts	85.9%	87.0%	(1.1) Pts
		Atlantic	86.1%	83.1%	3.0 Pts	85.6%	84.7%	0.9 Pts
		Pacific	83.7%	85.9%	(2.2) Pts	86.5%	86.4%	0.1 Pts
	Total System		85.5%	86.0%	(0.5) Pts	85.6%	85.7%	(0.1) Pts

Mainline Completion Factor			99.92%	99.97%	(0.05) Pts

Mainline On-time Performance			90.0%	89.4%	0.6 Pts
(preliminary DOT A14)

Passengers Boarded			16,547,515	16,180,826	2.3%	161,730,638	157,123,260	2.9%

Cargo Ton Miles (000):			191,225	196,917	(2.9%)	1,841,895	1,803,253	2.1%