Good lord. "I'm an English instructor at an university..."
And "deflamatry" was not a mistake - there is no such word and it wasn't a typo.
You're mixing and matching content to suit your flavour of the day: be my guest.
Your dictionary and mine agree.
I do have this feeling this thread is suffering professionally qualified levels of poisoning in a bid to mess up social networking.
I maintain that there are multiple stakeholders in your teacup squabble: it is not just employees vs. management, but users and airport vicinity residents as well.
I further maintain that quadrilogue (which may not be in your dictionary, Sir) can be as constructive as the spirit of its participants: win/win/win/win is definitely among the range of possible outcomes, if the airline's public relations people have enough imagination to suggest positive advertising spin-off.
I am basically SLF.
I would love to earn one more soft spot for one more airline.
So can we call off this little psyop?