Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE:DAL) Bernstein 38th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference June 1, 2022 9:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Ed Bastian – CEO
Conference Call Participants
David Vernon – Bernstein
David Vernon
All right. Good morning, everyone and welcome to Bernstein 38th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference. My name is David Vernon. I cover the transportation and airlines sector for Bernstein. We are more than happy to be joined this morning by Ed Bastian, CEO of Delta Air Lines.
We’re going to go through a little bit of Q&A. You should have access to a QR code that you can get to a thing called Pigeonhole where if you’d like to promote, demote or ask a question, you can do that. We’ll be trying to process that as much as we can. I can’t guarantee you I can juggle all these things, but we’ll do the best we can to incorporate whatever feedback you guys have into the conversation.
So Ed, thank you so much for joining us again at the conference here today. Welcome back, everyone to a live conference. It’s glad to see that the toughest part of this is not having — not being able to wear shorts and flip-flops. You have to actually put on a suit again, it’s different, but we’re thrilled to have you here.
Question-and-Answer Session
Q – David Vernon
So why don’t you kick us off with some early remarks on the state of the business?
Ed Bastian
Well, thanks, Dave, and it’s good to see everyone, and it’s even good to see people wearing ties. They’re coming back, so hopefully we’ll all get back to our normal patterns and behaviors here real soon, but it’s good to be back. Excited to be here, even more excited not just to be with you, but what we’re doing this afternoon.
We’re opening the new LaGuardia Airport, the new Delta terminal at LaGuardia. We’re cutting the ribbon with the governor this afternoon, and it’s stunning. Words can’t — find it hard to describe. I spent a couple of hours walking it last night, it’s impactful when you see the scale and the…