Delta also plans to raise $750 million from a sale-leaseback deal for nine of the remaining Airbus jetliners scheduled to be handed over, according to the report https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-23/delta-in-talks-to-defer-40-airbus-jet-deliveries-past-year-end?srnd=premium&sref=2h1zKciy.

Delta declined to comment on "industry rumor or speculation".

(Reporting by Sanjana Shivdas in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)