Personnel
Between its mainline operation and subsidiaries, Delta employs approximately 80,000 people.
Delta's approximately 12,400 pilots are represented by the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA). The union has represented Delta pilots since 1940. Pilot domiciles are located in Atlanta, Minneapolis, Detroit, Seattle, Memphis, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, New York City, and Salt Lake City.
The company's approximately 180 flight dispatchers are represented by the Professional Airline Flight Control Association (PAFCA).
Aside from the pilots and flight dispatchers, all other Delta Air Lines employees, in contrast to other legacy and mainline air carriers, are nonunion, which now includes the former Northwest Airlines unions, after a vote for unionization which involved former Northwest employees was rejected in early 2009 by 52.5 percent of those voting. The only other American mainline air carrier with a large percentage of its employees being nonunion is JetBlue Airways, which is entirely nonunion.
On March 18, 2008, Delta announced that it was offering voluntary severance payouts for up to 30,000 employees (though the target headcount reduction is significantly less than that), and that it would cut domestic capacity by 5%.
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