United Airlines CE pens love letter to workers with big bucks attached

United Airlines CE Oscar Munoz delivered a heart-warming message about togetherness in an internal memo to more than 85,000 team members. Munoz also used the memo to announce the carrier will pay US$628m in profit sharing for 2016 — a nice chunk of change, but a notably smaller chunk than the $1.1b in 2016 profit sharing at Delta Air Lines. Munoz in the memo called the hundreds of millions of dollars "a recognition of the value you individually contributed to our company." The United CE also used Tuesday's profit sharing memo to point out to employees that the carrier's biggest financial commitment is the investment in its employees — a $10.3b line item that includes employee salaries, healthcare, retirement contributions, performance bonuses and profit sharing, among other things. <br/>