While your employer handed out heart-shaped chocolates and treated the office to a special team lunch, Delta Air Lines employees were being showered with love, appreciation AND bonus cheques.
The carrier’s boss spent yesterday, Valentine’s Day, spreading the love by distributing a portion of $1.1 billion in profit among some 460 staff members, Bizjournals.com reported.
How does that heart-shaped chocolate taste now?
Jokes! It’s the thought that counts…
According to an airline spokesperson, Delta’s CEO Edward H. Bastian shared around $2.2 million with the carrier’s employees as a means of expressing his gratitude for their role in making Delta the best on-time performing airline out of the USA’s top domestic carriers.
In a letter attached to the bonus (which, let’s be honest, was probably tossed out after seeing the cheque), Bastian told staff that Delta was the only airline ever to share $1 billion in profits with employees , which it has now done “three years in a row”.
Though Delta may be the only one to share a portion of $1 billion, it’s certainly not the only one in recent years to make it rain over its staff. Last year, Qantas gave its staff a one-off bonus after reporting record breaking results. Air New Zealand also did something similar in August last year as did Fiji Airways.