Troubled airline loses two more executives
Atlanta Journal-Constitution , July 30, 2004

    Two more Delta Air lines executives, its former network chief and its top manager over work force diversity and community affairs, have joined the exodus from the company.

    Subodh Karnik, former senior vice president-network and revenue management resigned July 16 to pursue other opportunities, said Delta spokeswoman Meghan Glynn.

    Karnik, 44, joined Delta in 1999 under previous Chief Executive Leo Mullin. Longtime director Gerald Grinstein, who stepped in as CEO this year, recently picked a new core team of executives and named Jim Whitehurst as senior vice president and chief network planning officer.

    Delta also said Paul M. Graves, vice president of global diversity and community affairs, is resigning Aug. 13 to take a similar job at Schering-Plough Corp. He joined Delta in 2000. Delta's previous vice president of community affairs, Michael M. Young, "will be stepping in while we conduct a search for Mr. Graves' replacement," said Glynn.

    Graves, 57, had assumed the community liaison function after Young retired to in early 2003.

   More than a dozen high-level Delta executives have departed since Grinstein became CEO in January with promises to cut costs in many areas, including thinning the carrier's executive ranks.