Delta COO leaves for another company

Delta Air Lines“The chief operating officer will step down at the end of the month,” the company said in a securities filing on Friday.

Chief Operating Officer Mike Spanos has taken a job at another company, CEO Ed Bastian said in a memo to employees.

His departure after A little over a year In action, this comes weeks after the Delta was devastated in the wake of a massive earthquake. Crowd Strike The outage occurred in July. Delta estimates the outages cost the airline about $500 million and said it would seek compensation from CrowdStrike. Microsoft.

However, Bastian said in a note Friday that Spanos told him earlier in the summer that he was “considering opportunities outside of Delta.”

Bastian said Delta has no plans to replace Spanos. Instead, John Lafter, Delta’s chief operating officer and head of TechOps, and Allison Osband, chief customer experience officer, will report to Bastian.

Spanos joined Delta in May 2023 and previously served as CEO at six flags Entertainment and executive positions in PepsiCo.