Just heard we are scrambling to get to $5B profit. Expenses being pushed into next year and all revenue sources are being reevaluated. $5B is the benchmark they have set for themselves and wall street will evaluate a pass/fail on this metric. If we come in at $4.9B there will be a buying opportunity for DAL. Over is meh. $5.5B+ would be a huge surprise and not necessarily a good thing for the stock price because the
"how" will be scrutinized. It will be seen as deffering costs past Dec. 31 and early collections on revenue.