Bastian said Delta showed its reorganization plan to its creditors committee last week. He would not say how creditors specifically reacted, but he said he believes the committee will ultimately support Delta's plan.

Delta said US Airways continues to experience significant integration problems with its prior, smaller deal with America West. It believes US Airways is not equipped to simultaneously integrate a substantially larger company like Delta.

Bastian also said that the government's pension insurer is expected to give the final go-ahead Wednesday to Delta terminating its pilots' pension plan. The termination would be effective Sept. 2 and would mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. would take over the pilot pension plan and pay retired pilots a benefit up to a certain limit.

Delta said its business plan projects, among other things, a 50 percent reduction in net long-term debt and a return to profitability in 2007 and an increase in net income, after profit-sharing, from roughly $500 million next year to roughly $1.2 billion in 2010.

Delta filed for Chapter 11 in New York in September 2005.

Delta said its reorganization plan calls for rolling its bankruptcy financing of $2.1 billion into a new package that would go into effect when it emerges from Chapter 11, and it said it has received several proposals with competitive terms to help it do that.

There has been no decision about who will lead Delta once it emerges from bankruptcy, Bastian said. Delta's current chief, Grinstein, has said he plans to leave Delta around the time it exits bankruptcy.