117th Congress: DEMS IN DISARRAY!!!111!!

[Kepler]

It won’t likely happen but MN could house delta, with the infrastructure here that was NWA HQ.

Not a terrible place for a hub, TBH. All those transcontinental polar routes.

[LynahFan]

Well, there is moving your headquarters, and then there is moving your company. Delta has 33k employees in GA. If you think all of them would move to *Minneapolis*, well, I guess you've never met southerners... Now, a symbolic gesture of moving your 200-person corporate office (a la Boeing's "move" to Chicago or Toyota NA's move from Torrance, CA to Irvine(?), TX) is doable. But I'm not sure what would be in it for Delta - their employees would just be peeved that the C-suite types moved on to a greener pasture while leaving them behind to deal with NJC (new Jim Crow).

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Well, there is moving your headquarters, and then there is moving your company. Delta has 33k employees in GA. If you think all of them would move to *Minneapolis*, well, I guess you've never met southerners... Now, a symbolic gesture of moving your 200-person corporate office (a la Boeing's "move" to Chicago or Toyota NA's move from Torrance, CA to Irvine(?), TX) is doable. But I'm not sure what would be in it for Delta - their employees would just be peeved that the C-suite types moved on to a greener pasture while leaving them behind to deal with NJC (new Jim Crow).

All my family that worked for NWA just jumpseats to ATL for work every week. They didn’t move.

[LynahFan]

All my family that worked for NWA just jumpseats to ATL for work every week. They didn’t move.

Yeah, that works for the flight crews (pilots + attendants), but I wonder what fraction of the 33K that is? After all, most of them already don't have much incentive to live in ATL, so I'm guessing that the employee base in ATL is already skewed more heavily to ground crews, maintainers, airport ticket agents, etc - jobs that can't be done "remotely."

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Yeah, that works for the flight crews (pilots + attendants), but I wonder what fraction of the 33K that is? After all, most of them already don't have much incentive to live in ATL, so I'm guessing that the employee base in ATL is already skewed more heavily to ground crews, maintainers, airport ticket agents, etc - jobs that can't be done "remotely."

Mine are neither and are flight planning and ops, but yeah, gate agents won’t be moving.

[SJHovey]

All my family that worked for NWA just jumpseats to ATL for work every week. They didn’t move.

The son of one of my former business partners worked for NWA planning their Asian flight schedules when the merger occurred. He was required to move to Atlanta if he wanted to keep his job. He actually really loves Atlanta now, so it would interesting to see what would happen if they moved him back to Minneapolis.

[St. Clown]

It won’t likely happen but MN could house delta, with the infrastructure here that was NWA HQ.

The old NWA HQ is now the MN Vikings HQ. I drove through there a few weeks ago and they’ve completely changed everything between Delaware Ave and Dodd Rd along that stretch of 494.

I’d be curious to see where an airline could find enough real estate relatively near the airport to suit their needs.

sorry, not nitpicking, just typing some internal thoughts on it.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Even if Delta moved their campus to Minneapolis, they likely wouldn't dehub ATL. It's their biggest and most important hub, and most of those 33K jobs support airside operations there (pilots, FA's, mechanics, gate agents, station operations, etc...). Everyone else would either move to Minneapolis, commute, or find another job. We still have people that commute from Pittsburgh.

That said, they're not likely going to move their entire campus to Minneapolis, especially after the year they just had.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

The old NWA HQ is now the MN Vikings HQ. I drove through there a few weeks ago and they’ve completely changed everything between Delaware Ave and Dodd Rd along that stretch of 494.

I’d be curious to see where an airline could find enough real estate relatively near the airport to suit their needs.

sorry, not nitpicking, just typing some internal thoughts on it.

The training facility is owned by Lockheed Martin now too (If it's the building I think it is). They also don't need to be near the airport. United is located in downtown Chicago at the Willis Tower.

[Kepler]

The training facility is owned by Lockheed Martin now too (If it's the building I think it is). They also don't need to be near the airport. United is located in downtown Chicago at the Willis Tower.

Boeing HQ is in Chicago too.

In the Morton-Thiokol Building. Now that is karma waiting to happen.

[aparch]

McConnell: Corporations should stay out of politics!

Republicans telling corporations, after decades of being chummy with them, to mind their own business?

[ScoobyDoo]

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...cott-coca-cola

Rand Paul saying BOYCOTT COCA-COLA.

For an anti-cancel-culture party they sure do run to the cancel-culture on things.

[Scarlet]

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...cott-coca-cola

Rand Paul saying BOYCOTT COCA-COLA.

For an anti-cancel-culture party they sure do run to the cancel-culture on things.

Someone found a tweet from the AntiChrist...I mean, Stephen Miller, that had a picture with Trump in his office (wherever that is) and lo and behold, what's on the desk? Yes, that's right. A bottle of Diet Coke.

[aparch]

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...cott-coca-cola

Rand Paul saying BOYCOTT COCA-COLA.

For an anti-cancel-culture party they sure do run to the cancel-culture on things.

Trump called for a boycott of Coca Cola two days ago.

And was promptly spotted with a fresh Coke on his desk:
(zoom in to the phone on the desk)

[French Rage]

True Patriots will ship all of the Coke to Trump so he can personally destroy it!