You are kidding, right? You're going to have to run that Corporate line past someone that's not paying attention:
Delta's recent Published on: 03/18/08
Once a company known for never cutting jobs, Delta has now launched five waves of major cutbacks in this decade, targeting 38,000 jobs.
September 2001 - Two weeks after 9/11 turned an industry downturn into a nosedive, Delta announced plans for up to 13,000 job cuts via layoffs and voluntary buyouts or retirements.
October 2002 - Delta moved to cut 7,000 to 8,000 jobs in a second wave of buyouts and layoffs. Then-CEO Leo Mullin cited losses of $1.6 billion since the terrorist hijackings.
September 2004 - The airline, now under CEO Gerald Grinstein, announced new cuts of 6,000 to 7,000 jobs as it sought to avoid a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing amid continued red ink.
September 2005 - Amid more losses and rising fuel costs, Delta entered bankruptcy proceedings and immediately announced a new round of 7,000 to 8,000 job cuts.
March 2008 - On Tuesday Delta extended buyout offers to 30,000 employees, saying it hopes to cut about 2,000 frontline jobs as it cuts capacity in the face of ever-higher fuel costs.
...and this article, by date, does not address the 2009 and 2011 reduction in force via severance packages or involuntary severance.
you realize also that DL has offered voluntary packages not only in each one of these reductions but in many others.
No one is doubting that DL has cut jobs... every network airline in the western world has.
What has made DL different from other airlines is that they have obtained more job cuts through voluntary programs than any other airline.
The largest voluntary package yielded nearly 5000 takers in the 2004-5 cuts you noted.
Even without any intent to cut jobs this year, DL obtained 2000 takers for voluntary packages.
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Let us know if you know of any other airline that extended offers or obtained as many voluntary reductions as DL.
As for your logic that because DL cut jobs in the past, they will under the AeroMexico maintenance agreement, DL mgmt has noted that the MRO will give DL greater ability to bid for full maintenance services by allowing MX to focus on airframe overhauls w/ DL focusing on engine and component maintenance.
There is no reason to think that the AM agreement will result in further job cuts because AM doesn't have the same capabilities that DL has and there is no evidence that the agreement includes transferring DL's capabilities to them.
And again it also will likely lead to DL bringing back some of its Asian based overhauls to the Americas, where DL is the largest MRO.
You also realize that DL received contracts to overhaul at least half of Gol's engines that power its 737NG fleet, which I believe is the largest in Latin America.
Check out www.DeltaTechOps.com DL's capabilities, numbers of clients, along with the awards it has received for the work it does.
The cuts DL made in maintenance occurred during the BK phase and included getting rid of the facilities that support airframe overhauls that DL has chosen not to do any longer.
The AM-DL maintenance partnership - which involves an investment by DL in the joint MRO - positions DL to grow its MRO business.
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If there are further job cuts, we can discuss them but none have been announced.
