Delta Air Strains planes take a seat parked at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Global Airport in Atlanta on June 28, 2024.Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesDelta Air Strains’ leader working officer is leaving on the finish of the month, the corporate mentioned in a securities submitting on Friday.CEO Ed Bastian mentioned in an worker memo that Leader Operations Officer Mike Spanos is taking a role at some other corporate.His departure, after simply over a yr at the process, comes weeks after Delta suffered a meltdown within the wake of the huge CrowdStrike outage in July. Delta estimates the ones disruptions price the airline some $500 million and mentioned it’ll search repayment from CrowdStrike and Microsoft.Alternatively, Bastian mentioned the memo on Friday that Spanos instructed him previous in the summertime that he was once “taking into account alternatives out of doors of Delta.”Delta does not plan to interchange Spanos, Bastian mentioned. As an alternative, John Laughter, the manager of operations and president of Delta’s TechOps maintenance-and-overhaul unit, and Allison Ausband, leader buyer enjoy officer, will report back to Bastian.Spanos joined Delta in Might 2023 and up to now held the function of CEO at Six Flags Leisure and government positions at PepsiCo.Learn extra CNBC airline information
