Delta - The Happy Airline
Please correct me if I am wrong, but was it not Delta that had such a happy and contented workforce, it had a whipround and bought an aircraft for the company?
It never fails to amaze me how all these executives can eat so many lunches and dinners, (is this behind America's [and spreading to other parts of the world] obesity problem?). Why these people have to display their personal greed is beyond belief. The fact of the matter is they come into a company on a guaranteed salary plus bonus, stock options, etc., whatever the performance of the company. When things go wrong, they receive a handsome pay off, go down the road and straight into a similar position to repeat their act again. Meanwhile it is the workforce who always has to carry the results and invariably the blame for the company's failure. We are seeing this being repeated time and again in the U.S. airline industry, no doubt it will be in Europe soon. I know it is not good at the moment, perhaps it is because the European airlines are not as big so they don't fall so hard.
It is good to hear there some chiefs who don't demand every last penny, I hope they are the new breed. We certainly need them.
Good luck to all you Delta people, especially the maintence people with the closure of one of your facilities.