Originally Posted by
Ftrooppilot
This is not a team brought in to "shut things down." It's there to built things up. This kind of horsepower does not leave a Delta job, uproot families and move from Atlanta / Paris to MN unless they know it is long term career advancement. There is an old management expression: "When you shine like a diamond in a goats a**, don't move" for a high risk or dead end job
They are a HQ Delta team there to build Pinnacle (still awaiting name change) way beyond 80+ airplanes and will slowly erase separate identities between Delta and its "primary" regional.
Shutting Comair down was precisely the reason Ryan Gumm was brought there, and IMO, this is appearing similar.
Managers don't necessarily 'uproot their families and move'. Plenty of them negotiate positive-space passes into their employment contracts. No big deal.
Also, in the case of Ryan, was brought into Comair, then moved to DPJ, now shifted to the soon-to-be-wholly-owned 9E. At that level, if you do your job, go with the strategic flow and succeed, even if eventually 9E shuts down, I'm sure DL will have positions for him and the rest of that management team elsewhere. That's why we see so many recycled names throughout the company and the industry.