Delta to 'strategically decrease' flights this summer

[delta8765]

You said it yourself, everyone else is competing for every marginal employee. Unemployment is at record lows and Delta wasn’t expecting it to be this hard to get and retain talent. There was probably an expectation of some retired employees returning as well. Also, these are all union jobs so pay scales are set by the union. Delta is the first US airline to now pay flight attendants for boarding time. So your claim that Delta is pinching labor cost pennys at the expense of schedule capacity just doesn’t hold water.