Unfriendly Skies: Delta CEO Claims Bashing NRA Members is Good Business

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In the wake of the Parkland, Florida, murders, there has been an
unusual amount of anti-gun and anti-NRA commentary by private
corporations with plenty of problems of their own.

In February, Delta announced it was ending a discount program
for passengers who used the airline to travel to the NRA’s 2018
Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas. The move had nothing to do with
any problems Delta itself experienced with the NRA or its
members, but supposedly came in response to what the airline
called “the current national debate over gun control amid recent
school shootings.” Bizarrely, Delta characterized its decision
to link innocent NRA members with school shootings and to punish
them by reneging on a contract as a reflection of its “neutral
status” and an attempt to “refrain from entering this debate.”

You can make your views known to Delta CEO Ed Bastian by
emailing him at ed.ba...@delta.com, or calling Delta’s
corporate headquarters at (404) 715-2600.

The Washington Post, however, characterized Delta’s move
differently, situating it squarely within the #BoycottNRA
movement. The airline, in other words, had merely jumped on a
self-glorifying corporate bandwagon that has done nothing to
harm the NRA but has done much to remind gun-owning Americans
just what is at stake in the gun control debate.

Ironically, Delta’s move hurt its own shareholders far worse
than it did NRA members. While only 13 NRA members took
advantage of the now revoked Delta Discount, the airline’s
attempt to implicate the NRA in school shootings led the Georgia
legislature to eliminate tax breaks that were expected to be
worth some $50 million to the Atlanta-based company.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian, however, remained defiant. “Our decision
was not made for economic gain and our values are not for sale,”
he said in a statement on the legislative reversal, as if
Delta’s “values” and his job first and foremost involve pursuing
a political agenda against gun owners and NRA members.

Bastian then went on to brag during a television appearance on
CNBC that his company “gained a lot of fans” for its
discriminatory treatment of NRA members and for not “selling out
to political interests.”

We have some news for Mr. Bastian: Our Second Amendment rights
aren’t up for negotiation, either. As the NRA has already made
abundantly clear: “The loss of a discount will neither scare nor
distract one single NRA member from our mission to stand and
defend the individual freedoms that have always made America the
greatest nation in the world.”

Freedom-loving Americans, meanwhile, have responded to these
elitists attacks the way they always have, by renewing their
support for the NRA, the most uncompromising champion of
America’s constitutional freedoms.

It’s clear from recent customer reviews of Delta that the
airline’s time and efforts would be more profitably spent on
addressing its own operational issues, rather trying to deflect
attention to NRA members.

If you agree, feel free to contact Delta CEO Ed Bastian and tell
him all about it. Mr. Bastian’s email is
edward....@delta.com. You can also ask to speak to him by
calling Delta’s corporate headquarters at (404) 715-2600. Should
you prefer to write a letter to Mr. Bastian, Delta’s corporate
address is Delta Air Lines Inc., P.O. Box 20706, Atlanta, GA
30320.

Other options for making your views known are available in this
USA Today article aimed at helping aggrieved Delta passengers
get redress from Mr. Bastian, who apparently tends to hide
behind legions of staffers to avoid direct contact with his
company’s customers.

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ceo-claims-bashing-nra-members-is-good-business