Pros
Delta offers all employees wonderful travel benefits, the people you work with are amazing, and the job itself is fun (most of the time). They will also match 3% of your 401k contribution for RR employees
Cons
You will only be hired as a ready reserve and then it will literally take years to get a full time position. I have been with the company for 2 plus years and have applied for over 60 FT positions all over the country and haven’t gotten one face to face interview. As a ready reserve (RR) you do not get raises after your first year, you receive no medical or dental insurance, and no paid benefit time such as sick, vacation, or holiday. You are mandated to work no more than 1400 hours a year on a fixed schedule, which changes every 6 months. My station mandates that all RR agents work that 1400 hours a year so finding a FT job to work around the twice a year changing schedule is nearly impossible. Also, if flights are delayed and you work an afternoon shift, you are mandated to stay (sometimes many many hours) until your delayed flight takes off. This will interfere with any secondary job or obligations you have outside of your part time job with Delta. Delayed flights happen daily so YES, it will definitely happen to you and repeatedly. I have seen FT positions be filled in a way which is not accordIng to policy or seniority. The culture and values that the company says they have are often quite different than what I see happening at my station with management. My station has a high management turnover. In my short 2.5 years of being there, there is not one general manager, nor operating service manager, that was there when I started. Our current management seems to change the rules every 3 months to suit their needs. No consistency in enforcing rules/policies makes for disgruntled employees. I truly am beginning to feel that with Delta it is who you know, not what you know that will get you further.
