Recently, we’ve seen major airlines in the United States report their financial results for 2025. Among the “big three” carriers, the results are exactly what you’d expect — Delta had the best performance, United was in second place, and American was a distant third.
Related to this, one interesting thing has been seeing how profit sharing differs at these carriers. Following its full-year earnings report, American revealed the details of its employee profit sharing for 2025, and the numbers are leaving employees very frustrated.
As a point of comparison, at Delta, employees are receiving profit sharing equal to 8.9% of their eligible pay. So assuming that employees at the two airlines are otherwise paid equally, Delta’s profit sharing is roughly 30x as high as American’s.
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