AIRLINES

Delta Further Cuts Aircraft Orders: Chairman and CEO Ronald Allen said the carrier plans to defer about $1.8 billion in aircraft spending over the next two years, up from $1.3 billion announced two months ago. Allen told securities analysts that the new cutbacks were necessary to return the nation’s third-largest carrier to profitability. He said the cuts would reduce Delta’s planned acquisitions by 35 aircraft through the end of June, 1995, affecting firm orders and options for planes built by Boeing Co. and McDonnell Douglas Corp.