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Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian revealed that the new delta variant of Covid-19 hasn’t hurt their sales and that they are even getting 60 to 90 days of bookings in advance.
Bastian noted that the variant hasn’t impacted them and that they are learning to live with the health problem.
Summer travel and future travel bookings remain strong with domestic leisure travel surpassing 2019 levels before the pandemic.
Delta said that 72 percent of their employees and a “vast majority” of their customers are vaccinated.
Other airline CEOs, including those of American Airlines and United Airlines, also said that domestic leisure bookings have largely rebounded to 2019 levels and that business travel is also recovering, albeit at a much slower pace.
The delta variant became the dominant strain in the US earlier this month.
