$DAL

Ed Bastian

Delta Air Lines

CEO • Since 2016 • Industrials

📊 CEO Reputation Score

FY2025 vs FY2024 · Source: SEC EDGAR filings

77/100

Blend of this company's year-over-year free-cash-flow and profit improvement, each ranked as a percentile against every scored company in the three indexes.

Free cash flow: $2.9B → $3.8B (+33.2% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024
Profit (net income): $3.5B → $5.0B (+44.8% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024

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Overview

Ed Bastian is the ceo of Delta Air Lines since 2016. Delta Air Lines is a Industrials company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1929, and one of the 500 companies in the S&P 500 — every one of which is profiled on this site.

Leadership

Ed holds the chief executive role at Delta Air Lines with the title CEO — in post since 2016. This page is the concise leadership record for Delta Air Lines in the S&P 500 CEO index; the site's fully researched long-form profiles (career timelines, education, achievements, setbacks, philosophy and sourced quotes) currently cover the index's ten largest companies, and this entry will be expanded in the same format.

At a Glance

Sector: Industrials
Ticker: $DAL
Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia
Founded: 1929
CEO since: 2016
Index: S&P 500 (#143 of 500)