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Third-quarter earnings season took flight this morning with a stellar report from Delta Air Lines ($DAL), which lately has been the first big filer to publish earnings after quarter-close. Delta officially filed its Q3 report at 6:31 a.m. , and of course Calcbench had indexed all the disclosures pretty much immediately.  We can start with the top line numbers on the income statement, which all looked good. Revenue was $16.67 billion, up 6.35 percent from the year-ago period. Operating expenses were up only 4.96 percent, pretax income was up 13.8 percent, and net income popped 11.4 percent. See Figure 1, taken from our Company-in-Detail page .  Cool stuff, but we love airline earnings releases for all the non-GAAP metrics they also report — and which Calcbench captures and indexes too. Most notably, airlines report total revenue per available seat mile (TRASM) and cost per available seat mile (CASM) to keep investors informed about how efficiently the business is getting payin...

Welcome back to earnings season, everyone! Delta Air Lines ($DAL) filed its Q1 2025 earnings release this morning — and with that data, we’re all back to the grind. Delta and all the other airlines always make for fun earnings analysis, because they’re a great example of the non-GAAP disclosures that companies make. Calcbench dutifully tracks those disclosures, and has automated templates ready to go for those who want the latest data pulled together and ready for analysis.  For example, our airline industry template automatically pulls disclosures such as revenue per available seat mile (RASM), cost per available seat mile (CASM), load factor (the higher it is, the more efficiently the airline is putting butts on seats), and even fuel consumed and average fuel price. Plus all the regular metrics like, ya know, revenue and EPS and that stuff.  Please beware that our airline template only works for people who (a) have installed the Calcbench Excel Add-in; and (b) are premium ...