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Monthly Archives for April 2024.

Wow: Delta Air Lines Raises Pay 5% Across The Board, Adds New $19 Minimum Wage

by Gary Leff

Apr 22 2024

Delta Air Lines just announced a 5% across-the-board pay increase for its non-union workforce. It’s the third year in a row of pay increases, and follows February’s $1.4 billion profit-sharing payout.

The airline is also instituting a new $19 per hour minimum starting wage. Both changes go into effect June 1, and combine for an annualized expected cost of $500 million in increased wages. Minimum starting wage employees will earn $5,000 more per year than they currently do.

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Skip Baggage Claim: Delta To Eliminate Luggage Collection And Re-check For International Arrivals

by Gary Leff

Apr 21 2024

Delta Air Lines is working with the U.S. government so that connecting passengers arriving off of international flights won’t have to collect their checked baggage and drag it through customs themselves. Starting with flights arriving from Tokyo Haneda, and potentially by the end of the year, passengers will be able to check bags through to their final connecting destinations in the United States. Update: the pilot of this program will begin at Seoul Incheon airport, not Tokyo Haneda.

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