Reading that Michele Burns wants to sue for confirmed first-class seats on Delta is laughable. There are a lot of past and present Delta employees that wish they could sue her and the rest for what we see as a bungled job we are now paying for so dearly.

If she had given the attention to Delta’s best interest that was lavished on the controversial bankruptcy-proof multi-million-dollar pension trusts for herself and other executives, maybe our fuel hedges would not have been sold, or our insurance revamped for “significant others,” leaving us open to fraud.

The final arrogance of wanting her, and significant others, confirmed first in front of the paying public is sick. The paying public helped make Delta much more than Michele. The company and the bankruptcy court owe the public and us more than Michele’s leavings.

I still don’t get why all the lawyers and bankruptcy courts haven’t invalidated the so-called bankruptcy-proof pension?

Is there not enough good old testosterone among them? Surely there is one good lawyer somewhere that would agree that the spirit of the agreement was not honored when they were looking out for themselves so well instead of giving Delta the attention they were paid to. Shouldn’t that agreement be voided and their gluttonous golden parachute go into the frying pan?

In European countries, workers are much more protected than this. The whole thing makes me think of the French Revolution, the poor pressed down by the rich and scheming, the government not helping, the “let them eat cake” attitude. Yep, I can understand the popularity of the guillotine back then.

Gail Onesi
Tyrone, Ga.

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