{
  "id": 12813,
  "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91577529/delta-ceo-ed-bastian-says-the-airline-sees-the-economy-before-everyone-else-does?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&amp;utm_content=rss",
  "title": "Delta CEO Ed Bastian says the airline sees the economy before everyone else does",
  "summary": "Very few companies have a better real-time read on the American economy than Delta, and even fewer CEOs are more willing to say what they actually think than Ed Bastian. True to form, he shares how the company’s business model has evolved over time, and why he’s not convinced by AI until it moves his top line. This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response , hosted by former Fast Company editor-in-chief Robert Safian. From the team behind the Masters of Scale podcast, Rapid R",
  "authors": "Robert Safian",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-07-22T12:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-23T05:10:49.458Z",
  "source_slug": "x-fast-company-tech",
  "source_name": "Fast Company Tech",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.fastcompany.com/technology",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12813",
  "original_url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91577529/delta-ceo-ed-bastian-says-the-airline-sees-the-economy-before-everyone-else-does?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&amp;utm_content=rss",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}