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Delta’s Commercial Strategy Analyst (CSA) Program Was Terrible - Commercial Strategy Analyst Delta Air Lines Employee Review

1.0
2 Sept 2022
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Pros

Great flight benefits (free standby travel on Delta and deeply discounted travel on other airlines) Nice to have other people your age as part of your program

Cons

Delta’s senior leaders do not care about the CSA program. It is NOT a leadership development program. They treat you as cheap labor to fill roles that other people at the company do not want (usually domestic pricing in revenue management). They call it a “rotational program,” but it is two jobs over three years, neither of which you get to choose. Others at Delta can switch jobs after just one year, but you are stuck for 18 months. The roles you get rarely involve strategic thinking, so most CSAs leave the company during their second rotation or shortly after. The mid-management leaders of the CSA program do not listen if you raise concerns, and the executive sponsor has a bad reputation within the company for being rude and callous. The pay offer and raises are under market and non-negotiable, but other recent college graduate analysts outside of the CSA program get paid more, get promoted faster, and get larger raises.

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5.0
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Pros

Awesome company to work for! Fun work environment, cares about employees, great uniforms, competitive pay, just an awesome company to work for! They are very flexible, you can live anywhere in the world you want, as long as your able to get to work when you need to be there!

Cons

At the end of the day, it is a very large corporation. So it is very easy to become just a "number" in the company. The flight attendant group is not unionized, so rules can change very often. Make sure your time management is impeccable, because you cannot be late for work AT ALL, and there aren't many acceptable excuses, even rain is not an excuse.

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Delta Air Lines Response
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Thank you for your review and recommendation of Delta. We work hard every day to make Delta a great place to work; it’s nice to hear how much you enjoy our company and our work environment. Our people and our culture are our most important competitive advantages and the direct relationship we have enjoyed with our flight attendants has served our people, our customers and our company very well. To that end, we have a strong open door policy that enables any employee to go directly to a leader with any concerns, and we have hundreds of flight attendants who are actively engaged in our business, providing feedback and working on solutions for their colleagues and our customers. At Delta, a consistent, reliable operation is one of the reasons our top customers come back to fly with us time and again. That makes employee reliability – being on time, every day, for your shift or your flight – especially important. We agree that having a fundamental understanding of the flight attendant role is important for our field leaders, and we also value diversity at all levels of the company. That’s why so many of our field leaders are flight attendant qualified and many still fly when their schedules allow. We appreciate your feedback and will be sharing it with our In-Flight team. –Wendy, Talent Acquisition Team
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