Delta CEO says Trump’s trade war is hurting bookings as airline axes 2025 flight growth plans

Delta CEO Ed Bastian noted that revenue is expected to fall in the second quarter of the year

Delta drops prospects amid global trade war

Delta Air Lines, which believed as recently as January that it was on track for its best financial year in company history, said Wednesday that disruptions in global trade have created such enormous uncertainty that it scratched its performance expectations…

Bookman: Tariff chaos means pain for Georgia business – and maybe for state GOP in midterms

Since the deepening of the waterway was completed in 2022, the Port of Savannah, the single largest and fastest growing container terminal in the United States, has seen increased shipping traffic. Danielle Gaines/Maryland MattersAtlanta-based Delta Air Lines canceled earlier projections of record annual profits this week, with CEO Ed Bastian instead warning investors that the airline is canceling expansion plans and preparing for a recession. “…

Delta Air Lines had been expecting a record year. Then a trade war broke out

Delta Air Lines, which believed as recently as January that it was on track for its best financial year in company history, said Wednesday that disruptions in global trade have created such enormous uncertainty that it scratched its performance expectations…

Delta slashes growth as trade war takes its toll on travel - The Points Guy

The rapid expansion of U.S. airlines since the COVID-19 pandemic has come to a “self-imposed” end, as Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian put it Wednesday. Macroeconomic uncertainty around global trade has brought Delta’s multiyear expansion — which has included new international markets and an expanded focus city at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) — to a screeching halt, Bastian said during a quarterly earnings call. “Coming into 2025, …

Delta CEO warns Trump tariffs are already threatening the $300 billion revenge travel market: 'We're acting as if we're going into a recession'

Bastian called Trump's tariffs "the wrong approach" as markets spiral.