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Delta Air Lines has a potential upside of 70.5% based on a current price of $8.6 and an average consensus analyst price target of $14.67.

Delta Air Lines is currently below its 50-day moving average (MA) of $10.01 and below its 200-day MA of $11.35.

UBS lowered its price target for Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) to $15 from $17 and maintained its buy rating on the stock.

Domestic traffic was down 1.5% year-over-year on a 0.2% decrease in capacity, with load factor declining 1.1 point to 83.1%.

International traffic grew 9.6% year-over-year on a capacity increase of 14.4%, while load factor decreased 3.5 points to 77.4%.

Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) reported system traffic in April 2011 increased 2.6% compared to April 2010, on a 5.3% increase in capacity. As a result, load factor decreased 2.2 points to 80.8% in the month.

Richard Anderson, Delta's chief executive officer said, "Fuel is the biggest challenge facing this industry and Delta is actively reducing capacity, implementing fare actions, hedging our fuel needs and attacking our cost structur

Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) reported a Q1 loss of $0.38, a narrower loss than the $0.50 per share consensus estimate. Revenue was up 13% year-over-year to $7.7 billion, beating the consensus estimate for $7.6 billion.

Load factor measures the amount of actual utilization of the total available capacity; in other words, it measures the number of actual passengers vs.

Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) reported system traffic for March 2011 was up 0.5% compared to March 2010, on a 6.2% increase in total capacity. Load factor was down 4.5% to 79.7%.

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Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) the world's second largest air carrier, is seeking $2.6 billion in loans to refinance debt, according to a Bloomberg report.

Despite the difficult current environment, the company was able to increase its Q1 unit-revenue, a metric that measures ticket prices.

Delta President Ed Bastian Tuesday at an analyst meeting in New York said, "We've seen an unprecedented level of price discipline in the industry, We've had eight fare increases since the beginning of the year and we added another

Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) has scaled down its growth plans for the year, as higher fuel prices caused by unrest in the Middle East, along with flight disruptions due to the Japanese earthquake, have slammed the industry.

As the tsunami crisis in Japan deepens due to the earthquake-damaged nuclear plant, airlines are doing what they can to continue service as usual and not feel a big shift. However some changes are effecting them taking to the skie

Of the $2 million penalty, $750,000 must be paid by the company, while the rest can be used to improve services and facilities for disabled passengers beyond basic legal requirements.

The government has stated that DAL's handling of disabled passengers worsened after an earlier investigation in 2003, based on the complaints of disabled passengers from 2007 and 2008.

Shares of Delta Air lines (DAL) are down 1.44% after the Transportation Department ordered the company to pay a $2 million penalty for disability violations involving its passengers.