JFK is a nightmare - Ramp Delta Air Lines Employee Review

2.0
Jun 20, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The flight benefits were great. The employee website has a wealth of information. The compensation was fair and when the merger was complete all employees received some stock which was nice.

Cons

The management at JFK on the ramp side was horrifying with a few exceptions. Of course there are bad managers wherever you go but the good are fewer than the bad. Delta does all it can to avoid any kind of union coming in so they can work ramp employees to the ground; I wonder if the NWA union for ramp was successful. There is a ridiculous amount of favoritism and sabotage on the ramp as well as pure laziness and attitudes from all employees, managers, and the like on the ramp. The baggage system is the same one from the days of Pan AM and so is the asbestos that is everywhere. In all fairness I am only speaking for JFK and from what I understand every station is different. If you are a new employee, don't let anyone take advantage of you because they will as soon as they see they can.

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5.0
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Pros

Awesome company to work for! Fun work environment, cares about employees, great uniforms, competitive pay, just an awesome company to work for! They are very flexible, you can live anywhere in the world you want, as long as your able to get to work when you need to be there!

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At the end of the day, it is a very large corporation. So it is very easy to become just a "number" in the company. The flight attendant group is not unionized, so rules can change very often. Make sure your time management is impeccable, because you cannot be late for work AT ALL, and there aren't many acceptable excuses, even rain is not an excuse.

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Delta Air Lines Response
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Thank you for your review and recommendation of Delta. We work hard every day to make Delta a great place to work; it’s nice to hear how much you enjoy our company and our work environment. Our people and our culture are our most important competitive advantages and the direct relationship we have enjoyed with our flight attendants has served our people, our customers and our company very well. To that end, we have a strong open door policy that enables any employee to go directly to a leader with any concerns, and we have hundreds of flight attendants who are actively engaged in our business, providing feedback and working on solutions for their colleagues and our customers. At Delta, a consistent, reliable operation is one of the reasons our top customers come back to fly with us time and again. That makes employee reliability – being on time, every day, for your shift or your flight – especially important. We agree that having a fundamental understanding of the flight attendant role is important for our field leaders, and we also value diversity at all levels of the company. That’s why so many of our field leaders are flight attendant qualified and many still fly when their schedules allow. We appreciate your feedback and will be sharing it with our In-Flight team. –Wendy, Talent Acquisition Team
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