Delta Airlines: Debunking The Myth. Davis, Sidney F. Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1988. Hardcover, 191 pages, diagrams.

"A former legal counsel for Delta who is now with an aircraft-leasing firm, Davis takes a thoroughly negative view of the generally popular Atlanta-based carrier. Poor marketing, including failure to computer-network properly with travel agencies when deregulation brought increased competition to the air passenger business, is only the worst of Delta's failings as described here. In almost every budget category: employee compensation, fuel costs, aircraft sell-offs, etc.Delta faces trouble, along with the perils of its poor long-range planning for future equipment and airport facilities, according to Davis. A chronicle of corporate infighting leads into the author's closing prescription for what ails the airline (whose prospects in a recent Business Week article were described in very favorable terms)." - Publishers Weekly