Behind Delta’s Strength: CEO Ed Bastian Talks Strategy as Competitors Stumble
If last week was one American Airlines would rather forget, consider 2024 the year Delta Air Lines never wants to end.
Speaking on Saturday, Delta CEO Ed Bastian delivered an upbeat assessment across multiple key metrics for the airline. “Business is doing quite well, summer is progressing strongly and looking healthy. We expect our full-year [results] to be well within the guidance.”
It was a message echoed by Delta President Glen Hauenstein, who described “continued strength through the spring and into the early summer.” Hauenstein said further record revenues were predicted, with the airline able to “fill up aeroplanes at very good fares.”
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4 Reasons The ‘Hush-Cation’ Phenomenon Is Growing Among Remote Workers
The “hush movement” continues to grow among remote workers across the country as they continue to find risk-averse ploys to combine remote working with their desire for job flexibility.
First it was “quiet quitting” and “resenteeism,” followed by coffee badging—a work-around that remote employees use to avoid return-to-office mandates. Employees show up to the office for enough time to have a cup of coffee and earn an imaginary badge for it, then go home to do their work.
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Focus on Business Travel: Vegas Raising the Stakes on Meetings
he Informa Markets’ World of Concrete trade show, held in June 2021, marked not only the debut of the Las Vegas Convention Center’s dazzling West Hall but was the first sign that business travel to the city could recover after the worst of the pandemic.
Postponed from January of that year, it was the first large-scale convention held in Las Vegas in more than 15 months. In January 2022, the CES technology show, which drew 45,000 attendees, cemented the city’s place atop meeting planners’ lists even amid concerns about the omicron variant.
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