Originally Posted by
khergan
He's an annoying kool-aid chugger who has no identity outside of his employer, but he's also not wrong.
The gonkulator tells me that Delta’s pre-tax profit is ~59 % higher in cumulative absolute terms for YTD 2025. They're obviously doing something that we aren't, and simply buying a ton of airplanes isn't addressing that.
It’s hard to compare the two because they’re totally different companies. DL is well established and very well ran. Decades of building the brand will do that. UA has had about 3-4 years of rebranding. If UA can accomplish this much in this short amount of time, I think UA has a real shot of beating DL.