Certainly they have screwed manning up. However from a standpoint of how the airline is viewed publically most travel sources have been very positive and from the perspective of managing actual finances the airline is very well positioned. The cancelations yesterday were in fact mostly driven by a very liberal employee covid vaccination policy. Admittedly they should have anticipated the result.
If you hired a employee and your pay, work rule and benefit package was at the very top of the industry and he stood out on a corner and shouted that the company sucked with a bull horn how would you deal with that? You praise in public and condemn in private was a basic rule I was taught. I will bet you money I have pushed Delta through available private sources far more than 95% of the pilots on the list over negative issues. It’s easy to be a keyboard cowboy and shout on a public forum anonymously, it’s harder to write up issues and attach your name to them. The later does get attention I can assure you from personal experience.