‘Our Values Are Not for Sale,’ Says Delta C.E.O. as Airline Considers Ending Divisive Discounts<br />Ed Bastian, Delta’s chief executive, said in a memo to employees<br />that the company was “in the process of a review to end group discounts for any group of a politically divisive nature.”<br />On Saturday, as boycott campaigns from gun safety advocates roiled corporate America in the wake of the Florida school shooting<br />that killed 17 people, the airline said it would no longer offer a one-time discount for N. R.A.<br />members traveling to the trade association’s annual meeting in Dallas in May.<br />By TIFFANY HSUMARCH 2, 2018<br />Delta Air Lines said Friday it might scrap promotional offers for all politically contentious organizations after<br />its removal of a discount for National Rifle Association members drew a swift retaliation from Georgia lawmakers.<br />Mr. Deal said he supported the inclusion of the jet-fuel tax break provision<br />that was removed from the bill, but would still sign it because of its reductions of personal and corporate tax rates.<br />“I know this action by the state legislature troubled him as it does all of us.”<br />Delta joined United Airlines and more than a dozen other companies in severing ties with the N. R.A.<br />following the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., last month.
