Posted on 03/02/2018 3:42:51 PM PST by BackRoads775
Delta Airlines said Friday that they only sold 13 tickets under their group travel discount for the National Rifle Association.
The airline cut ties with the NRA last week in the wake of the Florida school shooting, prompting major outcry from gun owners and Georgia lawmakers, where Delta is based.
A Delta spokesperson told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the discount, which gave a price cut to members flying to their annual convention, was only used on 13 tickets.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Yeah it did!!!!
HAHAHAHA.
So they lost a large fuel tax break for showboating on something that involved a handful of tickets.
Karma’s a bitch.
The Georgia state budget gets more money, passengers in a seat have less.
Skyliner reports these airlines using ATL:
Southwest Airlines flights
Alaska Airlines flights
AirChoiceOne flights
Delta flights
jetBlue flights
Boutique Air flights
American Airlines flight
Spirit Airlines flights
United flights
Frontier Airlines flights
Other airlines flying to Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson
Korean Air flights
Aeromexico flights
Then no need to make a big issue of it Delta.
FAIL
OTL management.
Shows nobody joins NRA for discounts.
DELTA = Doesn’t Even Leave The Airport.
Delta says...
Was 13 passengers worth making a mockery of your Airline?
Retards.
Airline market share
Largest Airlines at ATL (Jul 2016 Jun 2017)[87]
Rank Airline Passengers Share
1 Delta Air Lines 64,943,000 72.73%
2 Southwest Airlines 9,926,000 11.12%
3 ExpressJet 4,871,000 5.46%
4 American Airlines 2,837,000 3.18%
5 Spirit Airlines 1,819,000 2.04%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartsfield%E2%80%93Jackson_Atlanta_International_Airport#Airlines
Okay, so why did you weigh in Delta?
Were ya Hogg tied?
...This makes me wonder just how many AR-15s were sold last year
by Dicks Sporting Goods...
The answer is zero. Dicks Sporting Goods stopped selling modern sport utility rifles after Sandy Hook.
However, you can still buy all the 5.56/223 ammunition that you want there.
Good markup in ammunition for the 5 million AR15’s already out there.
What does that tell us?
I don’t belong to the NRA for the crappy discounts. If crappy discounts mattered more than my beliefs I’d join the freakin’ AARP....
Delta stepped on its own Dick’s.....
Think about it Delta. If what you say is true, then you are forgoing millions in revenue for what, a thousand in discounts.
The stupid, it burns.
5.56mm
Doesnt matter now. Now its about INTENT AND PRINCIPALS! One must be careful what they ask for as they just might get it. I wont fly Delta if I have another choice.
The NRA "discount" was the Delta excuse.....a now pathetic one at that. Management at Delta has exposed its globalist gun-grabbing ideology. This was obviously there before the Florida murders took place. No company would knowingly discard thousands of customers to punish 13 who got "discounts."
So then this ridiculous virtue-signalling stunt was a purely gratuitous insult to 5 million potential customers? And somebody in management thought this was a good idea? Amazing.
Exactly. I said at the time I heard it that the whole thing was not about advantaged fares for NRA members, but advertising brand awareness by Delta. They were the only ones benefiting by the association with the NRA.
What a huge publicity blunder by an otherwise good airline. They were panicked by a teenage bully.
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