The business cycle affects Delta's business in different phases. Expansion is one phase of the business cycle. Expansion is an increase in employment, economic growth, and price pressure. This can happen when the economic market is thriving or after a recession. Another phase that will have an impact on Delta 's business would be a contraction. Contraction is where growth begins to slow down, employment declines, and price pressures decline. This may cause owners to start lowering the prices of their materials/articles due to a fall in the economic market. Another phase that could have had a real impact on their business would be a trough. This is where the economy hit the bottom from which the next stage of expansion and contraction will arise, causing contraction to happen again, and the business cycle to start again.