Delta gave its employees 2 months of extra pay.

[left-of-center2012]

Delta Air Lines had a very good year last year. Instead of just verbally thanking its employees for the company's strong performance, it announced it would pay them $1.6 billion in profit-sharing bonuses.

That means every eligible employee will receive a check next month for 16.6% of their annual salary, which is the equivalent of an additional two months' pay. "Delta would be nothing without our 90,000 people. They deserve all the credit," Delta CEO Ed Bastian said on LinkedIn.

The profit payout to employees for 2019 is a record amount. It is also the sixth year in a row that the company has paid out more than $1 billion to workers, a Delta spokesperson said. The profit-sharing plan started in 2012 following Delta's merger with Northwest.

The company's profit-sharing bonus is on top of all the other financial benefits it normally provides employees, such as a 401(k) match and other bonus programs for rank-and-file workers, according to the spokesperson. Full-time and part-time workers, whether or not they're unionized, will be getting checks. The only people excluded from the profit-sharing plan are the company's officers, directors and general managers, although they will be paid their own performance-based bonuses.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/success/profit-sharing-delta/index.html

[LonePirate]

1. Good for Delta for doing something. Other companies should follow its lead.

[CaptYossarian]

2. That type of coin usually goes to the top 12 people who don't need it.

Or--in Boeing's case...

[TygrBright]

3. That's the second classy thing I know about Delta these days...

The other is that when my Mom got quite ill while boarding a flight to come and visit me, they deplaned her and had a staffer stay with her while they called a contract medical professional and my sister. The medical pro did a quick Q-and-A, pulse-blood pressure-chest listen assessment and recommended she be taken to an urgent care or emergency room, and when my sister arrived to pick her up they sent a staffer to escort her, issued my Mom an unlimited ticket in replacement for the flight that had already departed, and had a wheelchair take her all the way to my sister's car.

I was impressed as allgetout.

Mom had a complete bowel obstruction that could have been fatal without immediate intervention. Fortunately she was in a hospital by that evening and three days later she was back home and making a rapid recovery.

When we rescheduled her on Delta to come and visit over the Christmas holiday, they gave her an unsolicited upgrade both ways to "comfort seating", which I guess is what they used to call Business Class or whatever it is that's between "cattle pen" and First Class.

So I'm not overwhelmingly surprised to hear they've done something else classy.

Keep it up, Delta, and you might get my preferential loyalty for any kind of air travel, up to and including a slightly higher price on my traveled routes.

appreciatively,
Bright

[volstork]

4. Great to hear!

Have been traveling more for work and took the plunge for a Delta credit card after I had several flights arrive early and after an unsolicited upgrade. This serves to reinforce my decision!

[AllyCat]

5. We appreciate not being treated like cattle on their flights.

[lark]

6. This is my airlilne - yay - I'm proud of them.

I will always applaud good actions by corporations, will there were more opportunities for this.