{"id":369158,"date":"2026-02-15T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-billion-valentine-profit-sharing-exceeds-us-airlines\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T07:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:30:17","slug":"deltas-1-3-billion-valentine-huge-profit-sharing-payout-exceeds-all-us-airlines-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=369158","title":{"rendered":"Delta\u2019s $1.3 Billion Valentine: Huge Profit-Sharing Payout Exceeds All US Airlines Combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span> marked Profit Sharing Day on February 13, with a $1.3 billion gift for its workforce, a large employee bonus pool that the airline says is larger than that of all other major North American carriers combined. This payout underscores how Delta uses compensation as a strategy, with the airline sharing upside in good years in order to reinforce culture, retain talent, and keep frontline teams focused on operational reliability and premium services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airline is sharing the love with its employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,565,1003,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-delta-air-lines","category-legacy-carriers","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369371,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369158\/revisions\/369371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}