Originally Posted by
CPMaverick
I'd say their mistake was offering the discount in the first place. The NRA was a polarizing organization before the latest protests. Best to avoid catering to an organization like that.
Airlines that never offered an NRA discount are not losing anything.
Maybe, but as long as we have a time machine I'd like to go back to 1986 and load up on the MSFT IPO.
Originally Posted by
ATOBTTR
I think the mistake was that Delta used the public route to do it, via Twitter.
That was kind of the point for them, though.
Originally Posted by
ATOBTTR
There wasn’t a reason to do this publicly except for Delta to say “Look what we did!”
Well, yeah, that's why they did it, so they could say,
"Look at us, being all progressive and cool over here in our berets and black tshirts!"
Originally Posted by
ATOBTTR
That said, I also think the GA State Legislator is out of line in its response, and this shows a bigger problem and that is how much of a grip these lobbying firms have on the politicians. Delta as a company has freedom of association and has the right to give or not give discounts to organizations as they see fit and the government shouldn’t be “punishing” corporations for exercising freedom of association unless they’re violating civil rights.
I've been an NRA member for over half my life and it's not going to affect my travel plans with DL one iota. That said, I think that it's good that a big company like DL got a "Code Red" on their PC crapola. Just like when SBUX changed their "holiday" cup to be more "inclusive" - if they just changed the cup nobody would have cared, it was the tiresome, nagging lecture that did them in.
O/H