Thanksgiving
Final numbers for the full holiday period of Nov. 17-28 are still pending**. However, from Friday, Nov. 17, through Sunday, Nov. 26, Delta carried more than 5.3 million customers on more than 43,000 flights systemwide.
Official Delta projections put the total estimated customer count between 6.2 million and 6.4 million from Friday, Nov. 17-Tuesday, Nov. 28 – averaging 515,000-530,000 customers a day.
Expected 2022 Thanksgiving customer numbers are just shy of the 2019 holiday travel period.
Delta CEO Ed Bastian spoke at length about travel demand, air travel pricing, the economy and other consumer issues in interviews with NBC, CNN and Bloomberg, emphasizing the airline’s best-in-the-industry people and products.
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