Remove the middle seat block
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 15 Apr 2021
- Due
- 1 May 2021
- Delivered
- 1 May 2021
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“we add capacity efficiently with the removal of our seat block May 1”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Delta Air Lines successfully ended its policy of blocking middle seats on flights effective May 1, 2021, as confirmed by their subsequent SEC filings.
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A Delta Air Lines 10-Q filed 2021-07-14
“our policy to block middle seats on flights through April 30, 2021” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -2.1% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (13 Jul 2021 to 16 Jul 2021). What this measures
Checked 12 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Product other
- Indicative materiality
- Low rules
- Action
- Remove
- Deliverable
- middle seat block
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- High
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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