Delta Air Lines, SVP Alliances, Perry Cantarutti at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Americas 2026
Delta Air Lines, SVP Alliances, Perry Cantarutti spoke to CAPA TV at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Americas 2026, hosted in Charleston, about latest industry trends and company developments.
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Transcript
Perry Cantarutti:As we look to summer and later in the year, but especially during the summer, demand for international travel looks really quite strong. We're encouraged that, you know, travelers are continuing to spend their money on trips. And it looks like we'll have a really good, a good summer. So we're feeling pretty good. Second half of the year, we'll see how how that builds. But at this point, we have also pretty good confidence. We typically have called the shoulder period the sort of September October period. Also looks really quite good, certainly on the North Atlantic. You know, the the demand looks like it's solid, and so we don't have reason for concern. You know, at the moment, of course, fares are are going up based on the price of oil, and. You know, so we'll see how that plays out and whether that has any impact on consumer demand. Encouragingly, in the last, I would say, 2 or 3 weeks, we're getting much more positive signals on availability of fuel, both from the US— obviously not an issue in the US, but from our European partners in our European stations as well. So we don't see any issues there.
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