A top Delta executive is leaving weeks after the airline's slow response to tech outage

A high-ranking Delta Air Lines executive is leaving the company, just a few weeks after Delta canceled thousands of flights and struggled to recover from a technology outage. Delta said Friday that Chief Operating Officer Michael Spanos will leave at the end of August. CEO Ed Bastian says Spanos will take a job at another company, but he's not naming the company. Spanos spent most of his career at PepsiCo and the Pepsi Bottling Group and was CEO of amusement-park operator Six Flags Entertainment before joining Delta just last year. Chief operating officers typically run the day-to-day affairs of a company.