Delta’s creative tariff dodge: Leave the fancy new jet, bring home the guts

While tariffs threaten to whittle away profits for many businesses, those costs aren’t subtle when they’re tacked onto the price tag of an airplane.

In an effort to preserve its bottom line, Delta Air Lines is getting creative. The Atlanta-based company has been pulling engines off new Airbus jets in Europe and bringing them stateside to get grounded U.S. planes up and flying—without paying costs associated with importing new planes and parts.

Bloomberg reports that the company...