Delta Air Lines aims to mirror top S&P Industrials, but realises its journey is not yet complete
Delta Air Lines continues to structure its business to resemble top performing companies in the S&P Industrials, but admits it still has some road ahead before achieving all the benchmarks necessary to declare success.
Delta is measuring its performance against successful S&P 500 companies rather than its airline industry peers as it works to win the confidence of long-term equity investors that it can manage itself successfully through the typical cyclicality inherent in the airline business.
One immediate test for Delta and the industry at large is ensuring that not all of the benefits from the recent decline in fuel prices are passed onto the consumer to the detriment of revenues, and Delta is confident that it will not disappoint investors with irrational pricing action. Whether it has the market power to follow through will be interesting to see.
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