Originally Posted by
DeltaRIC
It is most definitely not ridiculous. It is the only reason there are employees at airlines these days. Would you like to work with dirt-cheap wages and putting up with customers screaming and bitc*ing at you day after day? It takes a toll on your health. I guarantee you if there wasn't this benefit, airlines would have an extremely difficult time hiring employees. Think about it when your on your next transatlantic crossing. Those people sitting up front assisted you every time you desired an earlier flight at the airport, helped you in desperate weather conditions at the CRC where there was less havoc than in the rest of the airport, and the same smiling employees serving you for years. There are not wild animals sitting up there.
I think it's
great that Delta is able to give their employees this benefit! It helps employee morale (which is good for me, as a customer, in the long-run) and it gives them experience with, and exposure to, the product (which again, is good for me as a customer).
I can't believe that there are people out there who begrudge employees this benefit!
