Delta says unlikely to add ‘many more’ flights for rest of 2020

(Reuters) – Delta Air Lines expects to add about 1,000 flights in August but the U.S carrier is unlikely to add “many more” flights for the remainder of the year, Chief Executive Ed Bastian said in an internal memo on Thursday.

“While it’s encouraging to see flights returning, we expect our overall demand this summer to be only 25 percent of last summer’s revenue, and we likely remain at least two years away from a return to normal,” Bastian said.

(Reporting by Sanjana Shivdas in Bengaluru and Tracy Rucinski in Chicago; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi)