Delta Air Lines is paying $1.4 billion in profit sharing bonuses to its employees this Valentine’s Day, marking the company’s continued financial recovery from the depths of the pandemic.
Employees at the company will gets checks equivalent to 10.4% of their eligible earnings — more than a month’s worth of pay.
Atlanta-based Delta brought in a record $58 billion in revenue in 2023, and posted a $4.6 billion profit for the year as millions of travelers took to the skies.
The payout to the airline’s nearly 35,000 employees in Georgia amounts to about $595 million, according to the company. Company-wide, Delta now has more than 100,000 employees — making it larger than its pre-pandemic level of about 90,000 employees.
“Rewarding our people is fundamental to who we are at Delta,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in a written statement.