Delta Air Lines Reviews in Atlanta, GA Area

Pros

Flight benefits are terrific. Leadership is very competent in TechOps. Very flexible, free, and fun. Cool factor for an engineer is high. People are great in TechOps.

Cons

Pay for Engineers is abysmal, less than a comparable mechanic and significantly less (30%+) than merged NWA engineers. Education reimbursement is poor.

Advice to Senior Management

Pretty simple: Reward performers and fire non-performers.

I don't expect industry standard pay, considering the benefits of a great place to work, but pay level and disparity need to be adjusted from laughable. Engineers are a cynical bunch, but the situation negatively affects morale to the point that it actually impacts performance. All the "go getters" leave when their talents are recognized, and the only ones left are people who punch the timecard for a check. It's kind of confirmation bias at that point, because it's evident that the remainder aren't worth very much; so why change the pay?

I cannot remember the last person who was fired for inadequate performance, unrelated to a layoff. (2006 maybe?) That's not good. There's a happy median between Jack Welch and Welfare. Perhaps we're a bit too close to the latter.

Pros

Before the difficulties in 2001, great benefits and perks. Delta lost its way and people focus

Cons

Creativity was not encouraged, very insular and change resistant. Promotions of some individuals was baffling as based on likeability.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on building supervisors and front line managers' skills, that's where the rubber meets the road.

Pros

Good benefits, great work/ life balance.

Cons

The pay at the company is terrible.

Pros

stable, flight benefit, bonus, hours

Cons

no union, hard work, shift ,and hours, low pay

Advice to Senior Management

hire more people

Pros

Delta has a lot of talented people that are passionate about their work and devote themselves to making the customer experience one of the best in the industry

Cons

Delta has terrible HR support and talent retention. You must manage your own way through the poltical minefields carefully. Also there is still a good bit of dead weight, it's getting better slowly but the long time non-performers are still tolerated and worked around rather than being show the door.

Advice to Senior Management

Develop a talent management strategy and career pathing since none currently exists anything would be a benefit.

Pros

Free flights for you, spouse and kids
work life balance is good
work is non-intellectual, so you don't really have to work that hard
people are friendly
work from home

Cons

Salary is a joke
Promotions based on favoritism
no diversity whatsoever
no senior management interaction
if you're not a favorite, forget it.
not an intellectual group, so upper mgmt spoon feeds everything

Advice to Senior Management

hire some people with good education, pay up, and stop the petty favoritism. it kills morale and motivation.

Pros

Unity, professionalism, ethical, compensation, and benefits

Cons

professional growth, training, advancement, knowledge

Pros

Flight benefits, but very limited to short term employees.

Cons

Lack of recognition. Lack of respect.

Advice to Senior Management

Be honest.

Pros

the travel benefits are great, the public is great for the most part. I loved the work. I loved helping to soften people's fears, and dealing with difficulties that ocurred inflight such as medical emergencies and taking care of them with competence and knowledge. The training for flight attendants is grueling and hard--not about serving snacks, but evacuating many different types of aircraft with many different doors, windows, and slides.

Cons

if you can get a seat--but as a flight attendant with a crazy schedule, you're afraid to go anywhere because you might not get back to make your trip. And you give up many family holidays to get the travel benefits. Forget Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter--they won't exist unless you have a lot of seniority. You will be flying.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your workers--they have the pulse of the traveler. Flight attendants are a very valuable asset--treat them as such. Be fair--and never forget that a happy employee is a good employee--an angry employee will attempt to get even--keep them happy--use Southwest as an example

Pros

True Delta employees are some of the best people you would ever encounter in business and life.

Cons

It is sometimes like being in a Dilbert cartoon.

Advice to Senior Management

Just because you didn't invent it, it is not wrong.