Meet The Delta Family...

[BigMotorToter]

I received the below in an email. Is this true?
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MEET THE DELTA FAMILY
CORPORATE GREED THREATENS TO DESTROY A ONCE PROUD AIRLINE

2006 Compensation for OLD Delta Family

Gerald Grinstein - Chief Executive Officer - $343,402
James M. Whitehurst - Chief Operating Officer - $417,370
Edward H. Bastian - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - $443,369
Glen W. Hauenstein - Executive Vice President, Network Planning and Revenue Management - $388,882
Joseph C. Kolshak - Executive Vice President, Operations - $386,675
Paul G. Matsen - Formerly Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer - $549,894

2007 Compensation for NEW Delta Family

Richard H. Anderson - Chief Executive Officer - $11,296,759
Edward H. Bastian - President and Chief Financial Officer - $10,298,340
Michael H.. Campbell - Executive Vice President, HR, Labor and Communications - $6,380,261
Glen W. Hauenstein - Executive Vice President, Network Planning and Revenue Management - $7,333,300
Lee A. Macenczak - Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing - $5,939,836
Gerald Grinstein - Retired Chief=2 0Executive Officer - $357,941
James M. Whitehurst - Former Chief Operating Of ficer - $15,451,426

Top executives who got paid six figures instead of seven or eight. A CEO who was concerned about an airline built by thousands of dedicated employees. Concern about employees, passengers and share holders. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Those days are gone. The executive compensation figures shown above prove that the Delta DNA has been changed forever.Tolerance for this kind of compensation is wearing thin throughout the United States. Congress is mandating that executives who take advantage of federal bailout money have to limit their compensation. Delta executives who have taken money from employees in bankruptcy should be doing the same. These are the leaders that want to have a “direct relationship” with you.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

If you really want to compare use the Leo era executive compensation.

Hate to say it, but this is not that bad.

 

[Meiguy]

It looks like the 2006 is the base salaries of those guys while the 2007 is total compensation.

 

[Capt. Caucasian]

I picked the wrong career. Not the wrong industry, just the wrong career.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Exactly. Now that you are a pilot for DAL they will never let you near the money side of things no matter how qualified you are.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

If you really want to compare use the Leo era executive compensation.

Hate to say it, but this is not that bad.

A bad comparison would be comparing the Delta pilot compensation now compared to the Leo Mullins era.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

I agree, but 1113C had a huge effect on that. Get that back and this just became a decent career again.

 

[777forever]

I dunno. I cannot imagine the sleepless nights and the hours those guys had to put in to merge the two companies. I sure wouldn't do it for 300k....

Maybe we should have a walk in my shoes day. Execs ride jumpseat and pilots follow around the execs.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

I have had them on the JS. As always I am very impressed with RA.

 

[Flyer1015]

I have had them on the JS. As always I am very impressed with RA.

Well you must really like RA. RA's best friend/buddy is PT.

It will be a cold day in hell before PT rides with me.

 

[crj567]

I have had them on the JS. As always I am very impressed with RA.

You won't be impressed for long... Get back to me when RA and Steenland run the company right back into BK and walk hand-in-hand into the sunset-tens of millions richer.....

-BTW-How ARE those Intl routes doing lately?
-Hmmmm

 

[CRJ200pilot]

Well you must really like RA. RA's best friend/buddy is PT.

It will be a cold day in hell before PT rides with me.

Your just an F.O. You have no say who rides up front. Learn your place

 

[i fly boxes]

Well you must really like RA. RA's best friend/buddy is PT.

It will be a cold day in hell before PT rides with me.

so let me get this straight........
Your boss comes on board and you are going to deny him the jumpseat. Good luck in your career.

 

[jonjuan]

I have had them on the JS. As always I am very impressed with RA.

How so, his half-Windsor got stuck in your teeth?

 

[Raoul Duke]

what are the numbers with the amounts from vested option/share sales backed out. (i.e. Jim Whitehurst left delta and was contractually required to sell his options and vested stock within one year of leaving)

 

[CesnaCaptn]

Your just an F.O. You have no say who rides up front. Learn your place

As a member of the crew, I'm pretty sure the F.O. has a say in who rides up front. Maybe the F.O. doesn't have the final authority, but he can give his input. If an F.O. truly had a prob with a jumpseater, I think the captain would acquiesce. It's called CRM--learn about it.

 

[N2264J]

If an F.O. truly had a prob with a jumpseater, I think the captain would acquiesce. It's called CRM--learn about it.

I predict you're going to learn about it, Grasshopper.

 

[Fubijaakr]

Your just an F.O. You have no say who rides up front. Learn your place

Actually that's not true. ALPA admin manual Sec. 115 says that only people BOTH pilots are entirely comfortable with should be given the jumpseat. F/Os should speak up if they are uncomfortable with any jumpseater.

 

[CRJ200pilot]

So if your F.O. says to you..."I dont like our C.E.O. because he is a tool, I dont think we should let him ride up front with us on HIS airline" you would respect your F.O.'s personal reasons in this situation?

Thats dumb and not using good judgement.

That is what we are talking about here. Not just another pilot to pilot arguement.....but a pilot to CEO arguement.

I am just calling out the pinnaco fo who thinks he has any authority in the cockpit. what a tool..yes you pinnaco fo with the avatar of PT in a clown suit. You have not ben ther long nough to have an opinion.

 

[Sig]

So if your F.O. says to you..."I dont like our C.E.O. because he is a tool, I dont think we should let him ride up front with us on HIS airline" you would respect your F.O.'s personal reasons in this situation?

Should I ghetto-ize my answer to your post, or keep it legible?

An FO can throw a penalty flag any time, and if I am the captain, I will listen to every word. THAT is CRM- not acquiescence, not rule of one, but getting information.

Real scenario: AA guy wants to jump to YYZ. FO says he had a problem with it, because our airline can't go Int'l on their seats. Only the commuting FO would know this, not the FDH Cappy (wasn't me) who lives 8 minutes from base.

The guy was denied- and was extremely professional about it.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

How so, his half-Windsor got stuck in your teeth?

That is actually funny.

RA actually have a very good grasp on our procedures and policies. He worked on the PRM approach procedures and a few other major programs when he was a NWA. He is not just some leader that does not know any of the skills, etc that go with your flying profession.
He even razzed the CA for no updating his heading bug. After that, I figured he read our manuals for a little light after dinner reading.

 

[Wesb737fo]

Your just an F.O. You have no say who rides up front. Learn your place

I'm just an FO too...but you can believe there are 2 F--K Sticks in this industry that will never ride on the jumpseat when I'm there.

That's funny though.....learn your place.... from a guy flying an rj with 3000 hours.

 

[ugasucks]

R.A. is putting up that Soviet looking Wiget on the GO. He doesn't even know why the wiget is the wiget and its colors. We are no longer the airline that CE Woolman founded, we are a just another business.

 

[Whine Lover]

"We are no longer the airline that CE Woolman founded, we are a just another business."

Bingo.

Just another once GREAT AIRLINE that is managed and run by Human Scum... Choads that are not fit to be used for Soylent Green.

Delta, may you R.I.P.

You were the airline of my choice for so many years.

Sadly, no longer.


YKMKR

 

[densoo]

Didn't the employees share $900M to make the merger go through? A lump sum check equal to your annual earnings or something like that? Would be great to get something like that in this economy. That's an employee group that has some leverage. Nice.

 

[BOX OFFICE]

That is actually funny.

RA actually have a very good grasp on our procedures and policies. He worked on the PRM approach procedures and a few other major programs when he was a NWA. He is not just some leader that does not know any of the skills, etc that go with your flying profession.
He even razzed the CA for no updating his heading bug. After that, I figured he read our manuals for a little light after dinner reading.

Sorry, ACL, but RA is the second worse thing that has happened to this airline after Leo. He is all about the money and the power. He doesn't give a d@mn about us or the long term viability of this company!

It's sad that all of the NWA leadership style seems to have found its way over here. I predict we are heading into the worst employee morale since the Ron Allen "Leadership 7.5" days. This had been a takeover by NWA of Delta, not the other way around!

 

[knowlimits]

this airline
us
this company!
here.
we

Hey Captain Boobs-

Who do you work for? I find it pretty hard to believe that you are in the left seat of anything, and certainly not 'here, this company, us, or we', re. Delta.

 

[BOX OFFICE]

Hey Captain Boobs-

Who do you work for? I find it pretty hard to believe that you are in the left seat of anything, and certainly not 'here, this company, us, or we', re. Delta.

You caught me. I'm no longer captain. But since your opinion is meaningless to me (and most other people forced to hear you) I'm going to leave it as it is in my profile.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

The one that you need to worry about is not RA, but the gentleman from Ford and Harris.
RA is a lawyer and a business man. Forget that and you will be reminded quite quickly. My point was that he is more in tune to the operations side than most "money" type CEO's.

I am a strong believer that to have a truly successful company it needs to be run by an "Operations" type person. With the greed of the money men as of late, we may get to see that in our time here. Look at all of the truly successful companies. Operations type people are at the helm.

 

[crj567]

The one that you need to worry about is not RA, but the gentleman from Ford and Harris.
RA is a lawyer and a business man. Forget that and you will be reminded quite quickly. My point was that he is more in tune to the operations side than most "money" type CEO's.

I am a strong believer that to have a truly successful company it needs to be run by an "Operations" type person. With the greed of the money men as of late, we may get to see that in our time here. Look at all of the truly successful companies. Operations type people are at the helm.

I guess the tens of millions he is milking from a failing company are not really important to him..... Operations is what it is all about!

-Perhaps he will be sending you one of those "don't be shy about going thru your neighbor's trash" memos, soon-eh? Just operations.... Nothing personal.

The NWA mgmt team strikes again!

BTW-How ARE those INTL routes doing, Mr ACL65?