Delta Air Lines Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Delta Air Lines full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Profit Sharing, up to 4 weeks paid vacations after 10 years, 12 paid holidays per year after 1 year, 8 paid personal days earned throughout the year, unlimited standby flight privileges - in premium class if available at no additional cost, 401K up to 7% company match, competitive starting wages, ability to swap days off/on -or pick up additional shifts at will, many community/charitable events to volunteer at.

Cons – Must be able to work flexible hours and days - especially for first few years of employment, employee schedule changes once every 4 or 6 months depending on location, mandatory overtime.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the strive to create servant leaders!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Delta Air Lines full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – great benefits for employees. Culture is open and one of success and inclusion. Wonderful new gym facility in general office.

Cons – The location near the airport can be problematic. It takes a long time to get to via public transit because you have to wait on a shuttle from the airport marta stop to the G.O.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Delta Air Lines part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Delta Air Lines provides employees with the opportunity to travel the world free of change on a stand by basis. Further they give scholarships to students, emergency funds during hard times, and provide opportunities to get involved in employee groups. This is a great company to grow within if you are willing to aggressively network. Delta typically hires within.

Cons – It is increasingly becoming more difficult to land full-time employment if you haven't networked within the company. The coveted position are all in Atlanta and you must no someone in order to move higher up in the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Delta Air Lines full-time for less than a year

Pros – Full package of benefits especially flight benefits! Management is listening to the worker bees providing leadership training and career seminars so people can see how to advance. They will even reimburse you studying and passing test for a foreign language! There is free online training so that you can skill up and move up. Informal and formal career support programs exist for you to move up from that entry job.

Cons – It is very seniority driven as opposed to excellent performance in certain work groups like flight attendants. Very Atlanta, New York and Detroit centric ... makes sense but if you are out west do you really want to relocate? Wish Delta would try to make sure its employees are the best paid in the industry in return for giving best in class service.

Advice to Senior Management – Your most passionate employees are the new hires! A major effort should be made to engage the most junior and educate them more about the past & present of Delta before they get stuck with the jaded veterans. Management tolerates too much whining, this slows everyone down. Delta needs to really aim at upping our game vs. international airlines. No reason an American carrier cannot set the global standard like PanAm did at her peak.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Delta Air Lines

Pros – Great name, and corporate identity. Decent benefits from a travel perspective

Cons – Pay is not on par with other professions

Advice to Senior Management – Definitely should look to streamline things and offer individual workers flexibility to keep productivity up. The days of Mad Men are over. Agility is needed

Current Employee – been working at Delta Air Lines full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great benefits and flexibility and opportunity to see the world

Cons – It takes a long time to build seniority.

Current Employee – been working at Delta Air Lines full-time for more than a year

Pros – Collaborative Environment, upbeat employees, great benefits.

Cons – Salaries are lower due to flight benefits

Advice to Senior Management – Create more advancement opportunities.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Delta Air Lines full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Flexible Schedule, flight benifits and good teamwork

Cons – Constant badgering from Unions
Absent work force

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Delta Air Lines full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Sort-of-flexbile hours if you're a Ready Reserve and you have another job or in school.
-Exciting and fast paced environment.
-Fun work (most times) and great people (most people) to work with.
-Travel and see the world for free/less!

Cons – -Growing with the company seems discouraging and almost impossible.
-Sometimes you work with very unprofessional people (including management).

Advice to Senior Management – -Give current employees a chance to grow with the company.
-Do not just audit employees but audit everyone including managers.
-Don't hire just ANYONE. This can be detrimental in the long run for the company.

Current Employee – been working at Delta Air Lines part-time for more than a year

Pros – Flight benefits, upward mobility if you seek it out (merit postions), flexibility of shift trades, reasonable pay for the industry. If upgraded to a full time permanent position you can potentailly make $50k/ year with over time (10+ years seniority) as an ALA with no college degree and full benefits.

Cons – Flight benefits are the only benefits, seniority system means no matter how hard you work you will not be upgraded to a full time benefitted position until everyone above you (no matter how lazy they may be) has either taken the upgrade or has passed up the opportuinty. In smaller stations upgrades are very rare and typically in order to get one you have to move to another city. If you are not willing to relocate it may take up to 3-5 years before you have the opportunity to move up. This doesnt sound like that big of a problem until you consider that ready reserves are limited to 1300 hours/year or 25 hours per week at $11.75/hr. If you exceed this total number of hours for the year you are told to go home. Many do and this often results in a shortage of workers at the end of the year(Christmas, New Years, peak travel season, etc).

Advice to Senior Management – Note your seasonal demand patterns, you will be short on workers if you dont and things do fall behind when this happens. You dont have to eliminate seniority but you do need to take considerations for performance. An under performing employee should not be upgraded over a high perfroming employee simply becasue they have a month of seniority.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company