CHICAGO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) has extended a work-from-home policy until Jan. 8 and is continuing to ask employees to defer all non-essential travel, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

Airlines are bracing for a prolonged decline in business travel demand, with Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) Chief Executive Ed Bastian warning on Tuesday that 2019 volumes of business travel may never return.

(Reporting by Tracy Rucinski; editing by Jonathan Oatis)