Delta Airlines Executive Summary

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Delta Air Lines (DAL) has done impressively in the last three months, which is not surprising given the steady growth that the company is seeing in its financials. The airline major has particularly benefited from reduced fuel pricing environment across the globe and successfully implemented its superior cost-cutting efforts to maintain top line growth and deliver enhanced investor returns.
Impressive cash flow generation
Delta Air Lines continues to deliver robust cash flow generation with $1.6 billion of free cash flow and $2.5 billion of operating cash flow. This significant cash flow generation has enabled Delta to enhance returns to its key stakeholders by offering $1 billion in share repurchases and dividends whereas also lowering its non-GAAP total debt by an additional $250 million to nearly $7.1 billion.
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Strategic investments
Recently, Delta strategically invested in GOL which is estimated to strengthen the company’s prospects of becoming the major domestic carrier in Brazil which is further supported by the planned investments in AeroMexico making it a major operator with strongest network of airlines across Latin America.
The outstanding financial position of Delta has primarily allowed it to make strategic new growth investments while maintaining strong cash position to deliver improved and sustainable investor returns.
Delta is continuously and successfully operating with its key partner Air France KLM that has enabled it to develop an extremely profitable Trans-Atlantic business in addition to its planned Virgin Atlantic investment which is estimated to continue to support the airline’s major to again successfully implement such kind of model with several other new partners in well-diversified regions and markets across the

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