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Emergency Exit Slide Detaches As Delta Flight Takes Off, Forces Return to New York JFK
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Just a reminder that during the pandemic these companies were given money to stay afloat and they immediately laid off the staff and have - apparently - neglected all meaningful maintenance.
And flew empty jets around the world. Polluting shit for absolutely no reason. Those companies can all go bankrupt and burn in a fire for all I care. People have become way too dependent on them anyway.
TBF the "flying empty trains around the world" were different companies that only bought the planes and had to adhere to stupid laws that would void their plane spots if they didn't take off.
That's like making Toyota responsible if a Toyota fanclub decides that you need to make 100k kilometers a year to stay in the club
Both are horrible but in this case it's not useful to throw both in the same basket
Where you comment may reflect the airline industry as a whole it does not reflect Delta.
Delta was offered but didn't accept any CARES Act funding, additionally they chose to do voluntary furloughs and a buy out instead of laying off employees. Yes this did cause them to lose some senior talent, but it was not forced.
Source: I know people who worked for Delta during the pandemic. Most took a month or two off and then returned to work on 4 day a week scheduled for 2020. A few took the buy out, which gave them good lifetime benefits.
https://www.ajc.com/news/business/delta-to-turn-down-cares-act-loan-take-on-debt-backed-by-skymiles/EYCBFZOS4ZENXMYLROL3OM7AIY/
Don’t forget the stock buybacks
Airlines were actually banned from stock buybacks during the pandemic as a condition of the federal aid.
No shit. Impressive that someone thought of that.
Really, who, specifically, do we have to that for that?