Delta Air Lines has said it is “optimistic” about its MRO business following a 25% increase in maintenance revenues in 2025. To underline its increasing importance, from this year Delta will report its MRO financials separately, rather than lumping them in the “other” revenue and expenses.
“I think they had a really good 2025 [with] great commercial wins building the backlog,” Delta CFO Daniel Janki said.
The airline group expects Delta TechOps’ revenue to climb another 20% this year, with outsized growth forecast in the first six months.
“We do think it is one of those elements that truly is unique to Delta and related to our differentiation and durability, and that's why we want to make sure that we provide our investors with that transparency over time,” Janki said.
MRO revenue in 2025 was $826 million and expenses were $751 million.
The group wants to more than double its MRO revenues over the next few years, while also improving margins to the mid-teens.
“This is a business that we're excited to see across the $1 billion mark and one that we continue to hold out and see as getting to $2 billion and then getting to $3 billion of top line… it's high single-digit margins today, it should be mid-teens,” Janki commented.
Janki also praised Techops’ growing third-party business, which included the induction of a first CFM Leap-1B engine from an external customer, late last year.
The first unit from a contract to support the engines of Korean Air’s Boeing 737 MAX fleet entered Delta Techops’ Atlanta facility.
The site is one of six CFM Premier MRO providers in the world, with the others being Standard Aero and MTU Aero Engines in the US, AFI KLM E&M and Lufthansa Technik in Europe, and ST Engineering in Asia-Pacific.
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