A pilot in Delta has filed a lawsuit against the plane for stealing the software he designed

A Delta The pilot has sued the plane for $ 1 billion, accusing it of stealing business secrets on a communications program he created several years ago. According to Bloomberg, Captain Craig Alexander has introduced the QrewLive app, which he allegedly made with $ 100,000 of his own money, to the company as a way for communicators to easily communicate in the event of a crash. However, Delta rejected him and introduced what he claims to be the same a few years later.

Alexander appears to have teamed up with Delta CEO Ed Bastian back in 2016 after the computer meltdown all the planes have stopped and wasting the company $ 150 million. He told the official that he had an answer to such issues, which led to several meetings with the leaders themselves gave it to him The certainty of the words that he found his program.

According to Alexander’s complaint, Delta told him that their expertise was not in line with their needs and eventually launched their Flight Family Communications program in 2018. He called Delta’s official program as a “carbon divergent, redundant text messaging component. [his] QrewLive communication channel. “As for his decision to raise $ 1 billion in expenditure, he said,” it only depends on the amount of money saved in Delta. [which] carefully exceeds $ 1 billion. “

The complainant has been with the airline for 11 years and is still working with the company. Delta spokesman Morgan Durrant said Bloomberg In his remarks: “While we take Alexander’s stance seriously, it is not an accurate or fair description of Delta’s growth for its internal party.”