Delta Air Lines said it is giving nearly 70,000 employees worldwide a pair of free tickets for travel anywhere Delta flies. The free tickets are in recognition of how hard employees have worked during the past six months to consolidate Delta and Northwest into the world’s largest airline. In a memo issued to employees, CEO Richard Anderson and President Ed Bastian said, “During the six months since the closing of the Delta-Northwest merger, your hard work has been the driving force of our success in quickly delivering merger benefits to Delta customers, shareholders and employees worldwide. In short order, you have achieved hundreds of merger milestones — many ahead of schedule — and all with an eye toward running a great airline for our customers. By any measure, you are doing a remarkable job and we want you to know that your hard work has not gone unnoticed.”
Delta employees already enjoy the benefit of stand-by travel on Delta, Northwest and other airline flights; however, airline employees generally do not enjoy the opportunity for free, confirmed worldwide travel. The company’s free travel offer builds on other recent employee investments, including granting stock amounting to 15 percent of the new company to substantially all U.S.-based employees; across-the-board pay increases for frontline employees; performance-based pay increases for administrative employees; and more than $68 million in performance incentive payouts to frontline employees in the last 15 months. For more information, visit www.delta.com.
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