Delta Air Lines planes sit parked at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta on June 28, 2024.
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Delta Air Lines‘ chief operating officer is leaving at the top of the month, the corporate said in a securities filing Friday.
CEO Ed Bastian said in an worker memo that Chief Operating Officer Mike Spanos is taking a job at one other company.
His departure, after just over a yr on the job, comes weeks after Delta suffered a meltdown within the wake of the large CrowdStrike outage in July. Delta estimates those disruptions cost the airline some $500 million and said it would seek compensation from CrowdStrike and Microsoft.
Nonetheless, Bastian said within the memo Friday that Spanos told him earlier in the summertime that he was “considering opportunities outside of Delta.”
Delta doesn’t plan to interchange Spanos, Bastian said. As a substitute, John Laughter, chief of operations and president of Delta’s TechOps maintenance and overhaul unit, and Allison Ausband, chief customer experience officer, will report back to Bastian.
Spanos joined Delta in May 2023 and previously held the role of CEO at Six Flags Entertainment and executive positions at PepsiCo.
