Originally Posted by JimStraz
My partner works for Delta and he was informed that the Headquarters and CEO office has hired high level security for the day of the announcement and the week thereafter. They have set up counseling services and top administrators are suggesting that long term employees review retirement options. He was told by his senior execs that the company as it exists today will no longer exist a year from now.
I am very anxious to hear what happens. Doesn't look good.
Well, Grinstein has previously been quoted as saying that the Delta of 2005 will be radically different from what exists today. With words like that, I would expect some shifts in the overall operating model, and not just "normal" operating changes such as cutting flights here and there or downsizing a hub or two (those are things that airlines will do on an operational basis without fundamentally changing their basic business concept).