Erick Burgueño Salas
Research expert covering climate change and the water industry
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The company is one of the oldest legacy carriers in the United States and was formed by the merger of legacy carriers such as Western Airlines, which was acquired in 1987, or Northwest Airlines, which was acquired in 2008, and others. Headquartered at the busiest airport in the world, the Atlanta-based company transported more than 100 million passengers in 2021 with connections to some 300 destinations in the world.Operating performance of Delta Air Lines
The airline’s growth in providing passenger air transportation services can be seen in the increasingly operating revenues over the last years. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. airline saw a huge drop in revenue in 2020: from 47 billion U.S. dollars generated in 2019 to only 12.8 billion U.S. dollars. In that same period, the airline transported only 55 million passengers, had a seat capacity of only 134.4 billion available seat miles and a passenger load factor of 55 percent, the lowest in the recent decade.
