How Did Delta Perform Operationally In August?

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In the month of August 2016, the legacy carrier, Delta, saw its capacity increase slightly, in line with the guidance. However, its passenger traffic decreased by 2.8%, and passengers boarded declined by 3.1%. To make matters worse, the carrier’s unit revenues dropped by as much as 9.5%. Delta attributes most of this decline to the outage in August that led to approximately 2,300 cancellations. The other reasons sighted by the airline included the ongoing supply-demand imbalance in the transatlantic region, and headwinds from its yen hedge positions. The fall in PRASM led to Delta suffering a loss of approximately $100 million in the month of August. The company has revised its third quarter unit revenue outlook downward to 4%-6%, on the back of this incident, but remains confident about turning the metric around by the end of the year as planned.

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