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AirTran is sponsoring the Fourth of July fireworks celebration at Lenox Mall in Atlanta. This event is attended by more than 300,000 persons and is easily the largest fireworks show in the Southeast. They have bands playing patriotic tunes while two and a half tons of fireworks decorate the Atlanta Sky in a terrific celebration of patriotism. It is a beautiful event, which includes a diverse mix of AirTran's customer base, all having a good time.
In contrast - here is press coverage of Delta's marketing effort over the previous weekend by ANDISHEH NOURAEE, only Creative Loafing covered the "event." Even then, it was only a paragraph or two on an inside page, after coverage of Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest at Zoo Atlanta, Corndogorama 5000 at the Earl. Note that more people than ever came to the event to protest and those protesters saw "DELTA" as a principal sponsor.
Instead of fuel hedging, paying the retirement promises made to its employees, or making good on the debt agreements Delta has entered into with its business partners, Delta is finding cash to burn on divisive political agendas having to do with domestic partners. If Delta was rolling in cash, it would be one thing, but when Delta's President repeatedly goes to Congress asking that taxpayers bail this Company out, it has a higher obligation to its shareholders and employees than to fund the narrow politial agendas of some radical managers with corporate funds.
In contrast - here is press coverage of Delta's marketing effort over the previous weekend by ANDISHEH NOURAEE, only Creative Loafing covered the "event." Even then, it was only a paragraph or two on an inside page, after coverage of Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest at Zoo Atlanta, Corndogorama 5000 at the Earl. Note that more people than ever came to the event to protest and those protesters saw "DELTA" as a principal sponsor.
Great job Delta, I am so embarrassed to work for an airline even associated with you. General Lee calls this a great idea for a marketing campaign and I'm telling anyone who gives a crap about Delta that this sort of management is why AirTran will be operating 787's across the Atlantic before Delta pays off a dime of its $20,000,000,000.00 plus debt.On Sunday, I took time out of my busy hangover schedule to make it out for a drizzly Atlanta Pride Parade. The usual gang was marching: lesbians on motorcycles, lesbians with lawn mowers, Delta employees on miniature planes... local politicians, gay men with hairy bodies who like to go camping in the nude, gay men with hairless bodies who like to parade nearly nude, a couple of men with breasts, Clermont Lounge's Blondie, friends of gay people, family members of gay people, politicians, and lots and lots of church groups. The marching church groups were more frequent and large than I've seen before. It's hard to pick a favorite parade moment, but since I want to finish this column and go eat something, I'll choose this one: An exceedingly plus-sized drag queen riding a motorcycle in the parade stopped in front of me on Peachtree, winked at the guy next to me and asked him, "Hey, wanna |=uck a fat girl?" (S)he rode off before he could answer.
Instead of fuel hedging, paying the retirement promises made to its employees, or making good on the debt agreements Delta has entered into with its business partners, Delta is finding cash to burn on divisive political agendas having to do with domestic partners. If Delta was rolling in cash, it would be one thing, but when Delta's President repeatedly goes to Congress asking that taxpayers bail this Company out, it has a higher obligation to its shareholders and employees than to fund the narrow politial agendas of some radical managers with corporate funds.
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