HuffPo: Delta Tried to Trap Its Own Flight Attendants
 

"Someone in the airline’s operations control center feared attendants might walk off the plane after working long hours. So they ordered the door closed."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/delta...b0a1997b6b198c
Seems like someone did not know that the new app where flight teams can text message each other would allow lots of employees to see their messages.

Jesus this is bad...

DL is a business, if the flight didn't take off by 11pm they would have to delay until the next day, they wanted to try and get the flight out before the crew timed out. All of that seems reasonable -- but I do agree the "do not open the door" was not the best language to use but the overall sentiment isn't that absurd.

Yeah, but operationally speaking airlines pull stuff like this all the time. How many times is everybody "trapped" on the plane during delays. I was on a flight and we got diverted to Knoxville because ATL was a weather mess and we didn't have fuel. They wouldn't even pull up to a gate to let us off. Some of us would have rather just got off there then head to the weather delayed disaster of ATL we eventually got to.

Not saying what happened is OK, but someone is trying to make a big news story out of it.

I really love this site, if any of us were at work, and expected to stay at work beyond our scheduled time without for the most part the option to leave none of us would be happy but since its DL its ok. Sure they "chose" to stay and work the flight but who knows if its "frowned upon" to not have worked the flight and it could put their next review at risk or even their job.

Let's change this situation a bit, if you worked at say a grocery store and at 9 PM corporate sent a memo everybody could see to the manager of said store that said "lock the front door so employees cant leave" we would all rightfully be livid especially after working all day. Then hours later we were given the option to leave work but it was most likely strongly implied you are "not a team player" if you left then its a true rock and a hard place situation.

Just because DL did it does not make it normal or ok as evidenced by the fact that DL even acknowledged all this communication happened and said this was not the right thing to do. DL could have written this off and not even acknowledged it since it was leaked from a third party, the airline acknowledging it makes me think they know how bad it was what happened. Just because it was an FA crew does that make it ok? I am certain (and rightfully so) if this was the pilots timing out we would not be happy.

It is unclear how HP got access to the "internal communications", but if I shared internal communications with a news outlet, I would be in deep doo-doo, particularly if the issue I was raising had not been escalated internally and my employer was clearly aware and had the opportunity to address it.

Whistle blowing has it's place, but it is unclear that DL management was aware of this situation. As noted, the people suggesting that the door remain closed were really not the final decision makers it seems.

I get what you are saying, but although not literally locking the door, figuratively this happens in most workplaces all the time. Asked to work overtime and implied you aren't a team player if you don't? Happening all the time.

My point is the news story is the working stiff consistently gets this kind of treatment, it isn't specific to Delta or airlines. Whether this practice is acceptable is not a debate for a Delta thread.

Translation: "The actions aren't abnormal, putting them in writing is the real mistake here."
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Isn't the timing rather poor as IAM is trying to get a union vote going?

And the actors in keeping passengers on a plane for hours on end do have the authority?
If you mean legally, they actually do not.