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Delta CEO Richard Anderson faces a MacGyver-like challenge of bringing together two distinct workforces during an extremely turbulent time in airline history. Anderson's largest challenge, if the merger proves successful later this year, is to create stability for a vast cadre of newly-merged employees, while airlines are losing millions of dollars due to high gas prices and economic concerns. The cultures of the workers are drastically different, and Anderson will have to bring these workers under a single unified organization if he wishes to succeed with his notion that a larger airline will be more financially sound.