Originally Posted by
multipilot
This is just a really tough time as you can already tell. Delta and NWA recently reported a combined 10.5 billion dollar loss. About 6.5 of that comes from Delta. United reported over a 500 million dollar loss recently. US Airways also just posted a 236 million dollar loss. Continental reported an 80 million dollar 1Q loss. All of these airlines of course are carriers that Republic flies for.
This was addressed on the majors forum, but just to clarify, DAL and NWA each lost about $250 Million. The billions in losses they claimed was a charge due to lost market cap, and is not an operating loss, a cash loss, or anything that they have to pay. Not sure why they chose to claim the market cap drop as a loss, but presumeably it was some sort of funny-money issue related to the merger.