Delta CEO says there's no Elon Musk feud: 'I drive a Tesla'

Elon Musk said Delta's CEO, Ed Bastian, should lose his job on X.

Bastian said there's no drama between the businessmen.

Getty Images/Business Insider Ed Bastian said there's no feud with Elon Musk — and he's a big fan of the trillionaire's projects.

"I drive a Tesla," he told CNBC.

Musk has ramped up his criticism of Delta after some unconfirmed comments from the airline CEO.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian said he doesn't have a public feud with the world's richest man.

"There's no tit-for-tat, as far as I'm concerned," he said during a Friday interview with CNBC when asked about Elon Musk's recent X offensive against the airline.

"I'm a big fan of Starlink.

I'm a fan of what Elon does.

I drive a Tesla.

OK? So there's nothing.

All this nonsense about being personal is not true at all." The apparently one-sided battle appears to have started in March, when the airline chose Amazon's Leo as its next-generation satellite internet provider over SpaceX's Starlink.

At the time, Musk made one post , warning the airline "doesn't realize how much this will affect them." Musk has stepped up his criticisms of Bastian and Delta in the past two weeks after aviation-industry X account, JonNYC , posted unconfirmed quotes from Bastian, including a comment warning that, "We do not want to be with Elon Musk.

Trust me." The same day, Musk reposted an article with the unverified comments, saying that Bastian would "lose his job over this." @garyleff @Delta He will lose his job over this — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 30, 2026 Musk has posted several other times about Delta since the unconfirmed comment, making fun of the airline's internet choice: "Best way to sandbox an AI is to put it on a Delta flight," he wrote in late September.