---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-24-005993"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DAL"
cik: "0000027904"
company_name: "DELTA AIR LINES, INC."
filed_at: "2024-08-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T07:54:39.971358+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Delta COO Michael Spanos to depart effective August 31, 2024

## Summary
- Michael Spanos, EVP and COO, to leave Delta effective August 31, 2024.
- Severance provided under Officer and Director Severance Plan and existing award agreements.
- No successor named; transition details not disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-24-005993
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DAL
- cik: 0000027904
- company_name: DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-08-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27904/000168316824005993/0001683168-24-005993-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27904/000168316824005993/delta_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-24-005993.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Spanos departed as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at DELTA AIR LINES, INC..
  - Action: will depart
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
  source text: Delta Air Lines, Inc. (“Delta”) today announced that Michael Spanos, Delta’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, will depart from the company effective as of August 31, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27904/000168316824005993/0001683168-24-005993-index.htm

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