Posted on 02/09/2017 1:40:58 PM PST by davikkm
Delta Air Lines plans to hire 25,000 people in the next five years, according to a company statement.
Delta CEO Ed Bastian and other airline industry leaders met with U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday for a meeting about aviation. Bastian said in a statement that he appreciated meeting with Trump and other industry colleagues.
(Excerpt) Read more at daytondailynews.com ...
The entire country is more optimistic, as Trump meets with every industry group and listens to their concerns, challenges, etc.
Being pro-business means being pro-Jobs, pro-Workers.
Seems like a lot of people for an airline to be hiring but great news!
“You didnt build that!”
“Those jobs arent coming back”
-butth0lebama
Purposefully pessimistic and discouraging. The polar opposite of Trump
zer0 did his damnedest to pull A cloward piven while saying he saved the economy. His intended purpose was to destroy us and he failed miserably. We survived in spite that worthless POS not because of him. FUBO. Good riddance
Anybody know how many jobs Trump has to his credit since becoming President?
I flew on Delta today. I used to fly a lot before I retired, Delta wasn’t a fan of mine but I have to say today’s flights were flawless
If these companies follow through on even 30% of these promises there will be major labor shortages, driving up prices, but pay should go up also.
Winners: workers. Losers: fixed income retirees.
Plus the deficit is pressured as interest rates rise. Interest on $20 trillion starts to add up.
The article doesn’t say what those employees will do. It also doesn’t say how many new people Delta typically hires, due to expansion and turnover, in a five year period.
Their current body count is about 80,000. So that’s a more than 25% increase. I agree, it sounds high, as more and more functions get automated or outsourced.
See my #9. There’s nothing in the article to suggest that the 25,000 would be new positions, only new employees. It’s possible that their annual turnover is such that 5,000/year would represent no new positions.
Good point. I think I ran across something showing a 9% turnover rate. I’ll leave the number crunching to you, but doing some rough rounded math in my head, that would come to about 35k over 5 years to stay even, wouldn’t it?
I flew on Delta today. I used to fly a lot before I retired, Delta wasn’t a fan of mine but I have to say today’s flights were flawless
Looks right to me. 10% would be 8,000 per year, so 9% is a bit less than that.
I’ve heard that airlines/airports are having trouble getting maintenance and flight line employees because so many people can’t pass a drug test. My oldest is thinking of becoming an airplane mechanic when she gets out of the military; there are scads of jobs.
Highest turnover is probably in the call centers. If your call center personnel have good morale, you probably need to replace the local management.
A lot of airlines have been outsourcing their maintenance. There’s a big fight over at Southwest about that now. But A&E certification would probably be a marketable skill.
I'll bet they'd outsource breathing if it could get them out of some of the paralyzing union contracts. Always keep the oldest flight attendants on the job ... yeah, that's the ticket!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.