Delta CEO says the quiet half out loud: Airways have been a ‘political football’ throughout shutdown.
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In a couple of interviews Wednesday, Delta Air Lines Inc. Chief Executive Ed Bastian said what investors might be thinking: Shutdown-related flight cuts will affect the industry’s bottom line, as airlines lost booking momentum as some customers turned skittish and made other plans. Moreover, he said, the airlines were a “political football” amid the funding impasse in Washington.
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DAL has had to cancel a little more than 2,000 flights as part of government-imposed cuts that started Friday, Bastian said. “You can’t make that up within the quarter,” he told Bloomberg TV.