The Atlanta airport serves two primary functions, neither of which has to do with flying passengers from one place to another. It’s a piggy bank for politicians and politically-favored individuals to skim cash from and it exists to operate on behalf of Delta – making the lives of competitor airlines difficult (such as in the scheduling of gates), blocking a second Atlanta airport, and promoting their corporate overlord.
So when two Delta Air Lines employees were tragically killed on Tuesday at an airport maintenance hangar following a tire explosion, the airport took to Twitter to express condolences using Delta’s corporate slogan “keep climbing.”
— Atlanta Airport (@ATLairport) August 27, 2024
When I first saw this I wondered whether someone on the airport’s social media team was being sarcastic – pointing out how the airport acts as an arm of Delta even in tragedy? But the post remains up a day later.
Think if McDonald’s released a statement about employee deaths and said “I’m loving it.” That’s what you did, Atlanta Airport. WTF?
— RockfanNYC (@bmislow) August 27, 2024
This is way more than tone deaf. It appears to be a window into the airport authority’s Stockholm Syndrome.