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theUpsideDown 04-04-2021 03:39 PM

Predicting the future
 
So, this might be better as a poll, but lets play a game. Monday, our CEO is gonna have to explain yet another holiday screwup on staffing. So what takes the blame? How does he phrase it?

Write up three half truths he'll tell. Winner gets a giant prize, bragging rights and everyone has to write recommendation letters for winner to apply for the ceo position when Ed gets canned.
I Think he'll hit three bullet points.
  • This weekend shows we have addressed some staffing issues but more work is to be done. As you know we had 300 cancellations for a smaller schedule. Now we only had 80 cancellations for a larger, more complex schedule.
  • We've already returned all our pilots to active status but we are experiencing a bottleneck on training as we've never had to do this before, and we're taking our commitment to the customers seriously
  • We will maintain our commitment to operation excellence.

Trip7 04-04-2021 03:46 PM


Originally Posted by theUpsideDown (Post 3216758)
So, this might be better as a poll, but lets play a game. Monday, our CEO is gonna have to explain yet another holiday screwup on staffing. So what takes the blame? How does he phrase it?



Write up three half truths he'll tell. Winner gets a giant prize, bragging rights and everyone has to write recommendation letters for winner to apply for the ceo position when Ed gets canned.

I Think he'll hit three bullet points.
  • This weekend shows we have addressed some staffing issues but more work is to be done. As you know we had 300 cancellations for a smaller schedule. Now we only had 80 cancellations for a larger, more complex schedule.
  • We've already returned all our pilots to active status but we are experiencing a bottleneck on training as we've never had to do this before, and we're taking our commitment to the customers seriously
  • We will maintain our commitment to operation excellence.

This was the third major holiday in a row. Thanksgiving, Xmas, and Easter have been disasters. Memorial Day will be another disaster. The Cross Divisional Tiger team excuse won't work this time. If they were somewhat honest they would say we were overly conservative with our Pandemic recovery planning and are trying to catch back up.

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tennisguru 04-04-2021 03:58 PM


Originally Posted by Trip7 (Post 3216765)
This was the third major holiday in a row. Thanksgiving, Xmas, and Easter have been disasters. Memorial Day will be another disaster. The Cross Divisional Tiger team excuse won't work this time. If they were somewhat honest they would say we were overly conservative with our Pandemic recovery planning and are trying to catch back up.

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That's literally all I want from them. Not some huge mea culpa detailed every dumb move they've done, and there's been lots of those, but it'd be incredibly refreshing for just a tiny amount of honesty and humility that while they tried to guess, their guess was wrong and they're just trying to readjust as quickly as they can. Part of what worries me over the short- to mid-term is their seeming complete unwillingness to actually admit what the root cause of all these holiday meltdowns have been. If they're unwilling or unable to even do that I have little faith in their ability to not keep stubbing their operational toes going forward.

Air Stang 7 04-04-2021 03:58 PM

We believe science is real, love is love, black lives matter, women's rights are human rights. Along with tons of other empty platitudes so it's fantastic!! Very stunning, very brave airline operation nobody will question.

FL370esq 04-04-2021 05:03 PM


Originally Posted by Air Stang 7 (Post 3216769)
We believe science is real, love is love, black lives matter, women's rights are human rights. Along with tons of other empty platitudes so it's fantastic!! Very stunning, very brave airline operation nobody will question.

Yup....and, despite all that beautiful goodness, we are gonna xcl the $&#t out of Memorial Day weekend. #Winning! #FireEd!

DeltaboundRedux 04-04-2021 05:03 PM

Perusing the bio's of the Delta Board of Directors members would suggest that the current CEO will probably have plenty of support for recent public decisions. (Ex Coca-Cola, Home Depot, etc.) Ex very senior level US government types as well; there is a cultural zeitgeist that skews heavily in one direction at that level.

I don't pretend to understand Fortune 500 company boardroom politics in the least; however, no one gets to the top of a huge company without being very, very canny about climbing the greasy poll for decades. Don't sell the guy short.

I will say that our board appears to be extremely China friendly. That was a bit of a surprise.

This company's future is tied to the good fortunes and decisions of our CEO. For all our sakes, I wish him well.

Phins2right 04-04-2021 05:15 PM


Originally Posted by DeltaboundRedux (Post 3216814)
Perusing the bio's of the Delta Board of Directors members would suggest that the current CEO will probably have plenty of support for recent public decisions. (Ex Coca-Cola, Home Depot, etc.) Ex very senior level US government types as well; there is a cultural zeitgeist that skews heavily in one direction at that level.

I don't pretend to understand Fortune 500 company boardroom politics in the least; however, no one gets to the top of a huge company without being very, very canny about climbing the greasy poll for decades. Don't sell the guy short.

I will say that our board appears to be extremely China friendly. That was a bit of a surprise.

This company's future is tied to the good fortunes and decisions of our CEO. For all our sakes, I wish him well.

this is by design. The fortune 500 is following a path.

All part of the movement to corpocracy. Enjoy the ride to serfdom.

Ed is not going anywhere until he wants to.

Sad to see a great airline fail. I heard similar stories from my father when he was at Pan Am when the wheels were coming off with them.

All 5 Stages 04-04-2021 06:47 PM


Originally Posted by DeltaboundRedux (Post 3216814)
Perusing the bio's of the Delta Board of Directors members would suggest that the current CEO will probably have plenty of support for recent public decisions. (Ex Coca-Cola, Home Depot, etc.) Ex very senior level US government types as well; there is a cultural zeitgeist that skews heavily in one direction at that level.

I don't pretend to understand Fortune 500 company boardroom politics in the least; however, no one gets to the top of a huge company without being very, very canny about climbing the greasy poll for decades. Don't sell the guy short.

I will say that our board appears to be extremely China friendly. That was a bit of a surprise.

This company's future is tied to the good fortunes and decisions of our CEO. For all our sakes, I wish him well.

Barbarians at the Gate is a fantastic read, although somewhat dated now, detailing the machinations inside of the board room. The CEO/CFO/BoD community seems quite incestuous -- everybody knows everybody, and they all sit on each other's boards.

I'm fairly certain not much has changed since its publication; probably just a bigger club now, including academia, ex-political appointees, and NGOs.

A5S

theUpsideDown 04-05-2021 03:47 AM

AJC
 
“Delta teams have been working through various factors, including staffing, large numbers of employee vaccinations and pilots returning to active status," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is carrying this, I don't have an actual statement from Delta, so this is probably just emails over the weekend from Delta's PR to the AJC.

I got one prediction right, "pilots returning to active status". I should have guessed at the vaccines being pointed to. I assume the: “We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience, and the majority have been rebooked for the same travel day,” is saying 'hey this isn't as big as the last holiday screwup, we got same day service at least'.

A couple other groups have picked up the AJC, since there is no press release then media had no desire to publish a full statement. They just took whatever the AJC said, which is that access jounalism angle, and ran with it meaning Delta execs will dodge a bullet. The only way this is a bigger deal is if Republicans push some sort of "taxpayers paid for pilots and the company pocketed the money" and the narrative takes hold.

Maybe we get this sorted out soon and don't go for #4 screwup in a row.

opt0712 04-05-2021 04:50 AM

They should just tell the truth: They messed up and let their employees sit at home too long on the taxpayer's dime, and got caught flat footed.


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