Originally Posted by newKnow

I think I've heard this said in more than a few interviews: Delta is an investment vehicle. If you convince investors that you have a stable and happy employee group, you get more of them to invest more money, which in the long run makes all the investors happy. Show, investors that you got employees to sign off on a deal that had small pay raises and concessions in it when your company was making record profits, the investors are ecstatic.

Smart move on their part.