As a guy who has been raised inside the "Delta Culture," I find the current version to be a culture of convenience. It is best a facade used to encourage loyalty which is not reciprocated. Frankly, you can not have the "Delta Culture" while outsourcing more than 50% of your operation to AirServ, Regional Elite and all varieties of express contractors.

Still, I appreciate both Disney World and the version of Delta which Mr. Richard Anderson exposes. To the degree it works to put a smile on our employees faces it makes Delta a better place for us to work and a world's better experience for our customers.

CE Woolman would have never set up an outsourcing scheme which traded jobs at his Company for concessions. But, Richard Anderson's version is more than a million times better than Leo Mullins and Michelle Burns who ran through this place like Sherman.

All in all, Delta is the best airline in the business right now ... and this place is managed to make money (which means job security if we keep our scope up). Richard Anderson and his team probably are defining a new culture here at Delta ... a culture that we have every right to be proud of.

(as far as Culture goes, I've learned to judge Crew Schedulers by accent. If they talk like I do, I'm probably going to be OK. If they talk like Francis McDormand in Fargo, I'm screwed)