The commercials, which feature actual Delta employees, use a mix of black-and-white photographs, stop-action shots and color film.

I asked the first Delta employee I saw for assistance.

At 10:20 a Delta employee asked where the rest of my party was.

The report was prompted by an incident in 1991 in which a Delta employee had a nose bleed on a flight.

Later, Delta employees picked up the surviving crew members.

This was known to all Delta employees as "Operation Clockwork".

And every Delta employee knows they're an important part of the team by the end of their training.

"While Delta employees own 25 to 30 percent of our airline, there has never been an effort to make this an employee-owned airline," he said.

The board voted that membership was open to all Delta employees.

Even so, many Delta employees could end up with less than they expected.