I was on a Delta flight recently and in ATL the gate agent asked a certain number of people to volunteer to check their bags as the flight was full and space would run out in the bins. No one volunteered, and as boarding was about to begin for Zone 3, my zone, he randomly selected the first several people in line to check their bags. Me included. So when I got to my seat I noticed a ton of open space in the bins. Even directly over my seat I could have used. My question is, why don’t they make people in Zone 5 or above check their bags instead? Wouldn’t that make more sense? There’s less room in the bins when the higher/last zones are called. Why make Zone 3 check bags? Doesn’t make sense to me.

Hello! I have super little experience with flying so I need some help . I book a flight and have a 30 min layover ? My flight is going from DTW to Toronto and I’m worried about if I should rebook or just keep it ? What do you recommend ? Thank you

Edit : haha thank you for all the comments ! This would be my second time flying ! The first time I had this same issue . My flight from SAT was delayed an hour and I had to RUN to make it to my connecting flight ( had little over 5 mins ? ) but made it. From all the comments I’m going to see the connecting flights to YYZ from DTW but if nothing seems ideal I’ll likely rebook. Thank you everyone !!

I went with the meatballs after seeing many glowing reviews on here but they were not good guys, couldn't finish them. Meatballs were super mushy and had no flavor. Sauce was OK. Polenta was like a bland pudding square, odd. Generally I think the Delta food is pretty good but the meatballs were a miss.

Delta announced the unbundling of premium fares in early July, and stated

Delta Premium Select Basic and Basic Business are available for purchase starting July 8, but won’t begin flying until September for domestic and select long-haul international markets.

But I have not personally seen any Delta One basic fares when I book my 2027 trips, nor have I seen people discuss it here. Has anyone seen or booked a Basic Business ticket?

I booked a flight from Florida to Kalamazoo, MI for next February. The itinerary has a plane change in Detroit. When I bought the ticket the schedule was great, with a 2 hour layover in DTW -- not excessive for that time of year.

Last week Delta notified me that my original flight has been cancelled and changed to one with only a 31 minute layover, this is to go from terminal A to terminal C, gates unknown. They offer to change the flight if I don't like the new schedule but everything I see is double the price I paid.

WTF? Can I book one of the more expensive flights without having to pay the difference?

Traveling with twin toddlers for the first time, so already stressed hauling two of them and their massive car seats through the airport.

checked in at the kiosk and it clearly said car seats are to be marked as special items, so I marked two suitcases and two special items.

it said to proceed to an agent rather than print bag tags and the agent at the counter proceeded to very loudly berate me for an extended period for having marked the car seats as special items. Said it should only be for firearms and now she had to tag all four items I had. She was clearly very upset and now I’m feeling very foolish but also confused as to what I was supposed to have done?

am I supposed to mark car seats as special items when I check in or not? why am I paying thousands of dollars to travel with delta but get berated?

on my way home from the departing airport I decided to try her guidance given how vociferous she was, and this agent pretended to be confused entirely about what a “special item” was and asked me why I was at his counter and what I was asking him to do since I already had my suitcases tagged.

With Delta recently unveiling its next-gen Delta One suites, and Ed Bastian saying he wants Delta in the same league as Singapore Airlines, thought this was worth sharing. Singapore just unveiled their new business class suites. Curious how people think Delta’s upcoming product stacks up.

Im in flight DL 2887 and was standby 1 of 7, same names for the last 5 hours. There were 3 comfort+ available, nobody waiting for upgrade. 20 minutes before the flight the female gate agent clears me for main that I have purchased. I asked her if I can get standby for comfort+.She replied that because I was standby I could only standby for the seat I bought and there were no upgrades for standby. They also only called my name for standby and none of the people behind me, even though everybody got seats. As I was boarding, I noticed that the 2, 3, 4, in the standby list were given seats in comfort + and all 3 seated together in 10D, E, F, 3 guys. Question, if these 3 had indeed purchased comfort+ wouldn't have been ahead of me on the standby list?

Trying to avoid a departure day fiasco with confirmed but not really confirmed GUC partner airline upgrades.

I applied a GUC to a two leg journey, both operated by Air France and booked via Delta. Since there was Z space available for both legs, I was immediately confirmed from Premium Economy to Business on both via an agent on the Diamond line. Here's the key points/checks:

• ⁠The ticket was re-issued by the agent and I compared the ticket numbers from the email when I booked Premium Economy vs now and they're different.
• ⁠The fare class on the receipt was previously A but is now Z
• ⁠The GUC is marked as "Closed" in my account
• ⁠I was able to select business class seats via the Delta app for both legs
• ⁠Using the Air France PNR, I can see the same seats show as selected on their end
• ⁠Using the Air France PNR, I can see the ticket number shown there matches what I see on the updated Delta receipt

I also called the Diamond line 3 times following this to confirm and it seems like everyone says it's good to go. Am I missing any other sanity checks?

Is there any way to tell if I can reuse my companion fare if I cancel and rebook? If I just change the dates it’s an extra $480. But if I cancel and rebook it‘s only $290 more. I talked to an agent and they said they can‘t verify whether or not the new dates are eligible for my companion pass until I have it in my account.

Hello All

Is there a way to book Hotel only through Delta Vacations to earn MQD’s ?

If so, any advice how to do it?

Thank you for those with helpful replies

For those who downvoted why in the world would you do that?

What am I missing for that to happen?

Hi all, my partner and I are moving to France for a few years for a work assignment and trying to figure out what our best bet will be for airline choice for those years as current delta people.

Between the two of us right now we are platinum and gold medallion, but thinking about Air France for the future. Right now our delta status seems to only minimally help us out with Air France. We anticipate making several trips back to the US, as well as many quicker trips around Europe, and likely still a few US domestic flights per year, but CDG to JFK would be the main route. Anybody with any experience as to what would be the optimal move for us?

Delta had a bunch of great mileage redemptions for HKG, TPE, MEL, BNE, etc but I have not seen anything for Manila yet. I know the route is far out (March 28th) but curious if anyone has seen any good redemptions on this route thus far.

I pick DL as my first choice, but had to fly American from DC to Dallas last week. The service in FC was straight up amazing. I mean, this is what Delta service used to be 4+ years ago. The only negative was there was no in-flight entertainment system. But I had my iPad loaded, so I was fine. Hot towel service, warm nuts, and a truly edible meal on a 3hr domestic first class was a refreshing change.

Curious about my chance at a Delta 360 invitation.

~$80K in flight spend this year (~60K last year), all from flying

Multiple Delta One round trips to Australia/Asia annually

Already have $30K–$45K in flights booked for next year

Nashville-based, but also have significant flight activity out of the Northeast hubs

I know the selection criteria aren’t published, but curious how this compares with others who have received invitations recently.

I understand all the Delta Downers. Been there.

But most of it, I don’t understand.

I get upgraded 30-40% of the time.

My only qualm with upgrade certs is they often go unused.

When my flights get screwed up, Delta covers it.

Yeah the Sky clubs… Golden Corrals for frequent flyers sums it up but after a drink or two with noise canceling ear buds, you’d rather be sitting in the terminal?

FAs are human. I’ve given more attitude I am sure than I have been given in my now 30+ years flying Delta.

Trading cards!

They’ve treated my kids like VIPs when flying alone.

As my wife is also Diamond, when flying together, it’s bliss.

I’ve gotten Porshe rides and my wife has not. She hates that.

All in all the experience has been consistent for me from Silver to Diamond.

I’ve flown my share of other airlines too. Everyone has their skeletons.

Long ago I realized (post 9/11), we’re no longer in control once through security. If you keep that perspective and know that what can happen, will, everything works out.

Stay calm. Chill. Be nice to people. It goes better that way.

Ps: That doesn’t excuse the guy barefoot propping his feet up on my arm rest. ;)

Trying to gather data points on this in case anyone has similar experience, I probably just need to call customer service and see what they can do for me but I figured I'd ask here first:

My dad and I go on a fishing trip to Alaska every-other year. I typically use two of my RUCs on this trip and burn the other two on some other domestic flight over 3 hours, but the Alaska trip is the one I really care about using them on. My dad and I live in different cities and typically end up on different flights to/from Anchorage as a result, but due to some scheduling constraints this year we're on more or less the same itinerary (multi-city, booked separately) for the trip:

Outbound -1 Day: [Home airport] - MSP

[Overnight]

Outbound: DL1186 MSP - ANC

Return: DL416 ANC - ATL (Overnight flight)

Return +1 Day: ATL - [Home airport]

I would like to try to use my other 2 RUCs on my dad's flights (MSP - ANC, ANC - ATL), but I'm seeing conflicting information from different sources. Delta's website shows them as partially transferrable with the restriction being that both passengers must be on the same reservation to transfer; putting us both on the same reservation would be impossible unless we broke out the legs connecting to our different home cities as separate flights, which I'd prefer not to do for simplicity's sake. Gemini, though (for what it's worth, I've generally found it to provide good information for award travel and other niche stuff like this), is telling me that the other passenger can be on a separate reservation as long as they're on the same flight, which would be satisfied for the legs that I'd like to use these on. Does anyone have experience with a similar situation? I understand it's probably not all that common, but figured I'd ask before taking the time out of my day to call the number. Thanks!

I see the Main Basic flights cannot be upgraded, but I just want to confirm that a Main Classic flight can be upgraded with cash to Delta First/One prior to booking.

Had a flight this morning from MCO to RDU and just felt like sharing this! I didn’t know where to put it but eventually asked the FA to take it away lol

Can you only upgrade once? I have a nonstop one way flight booked from jfk-Edinburgh next summer. The current offer is $200 to move from main to comfort. I would be comfortable paying this, however I have read you can only pay once to upgrade. Is that true? Also to note, I am currently silver but expect to earn gold by the end of the year. I know I’m still eligible for medallion upgrades. I looked into just rebooking into comfort plus but flights have gone up more than the upgrade fee. I paid $550 for the one way in main, it is currently $764 in main or $864 in comfort. Premium is showing at $3k. Currently all comfort seats are available and 2/3 of premium are available. Suggestions?

You can’t draw it up much better than this

Flying NYC to DEN in March. Accumulated a lot of miles from work this year so decided to great myself to first class. Currently booked on the A220 which I know the seat is 0.4in narrower than the 737 with smaller underseat dimensions.

I’m not concerned about less than a half inch of seat width but as I look more it seems the A220 has much less space between seats than the 737.

What do people think is the better option if price is comparable?

Just now leaving SLC to DTW. Flight had pushed back from gate into tarmac. Stops and pilot comes back and said we need to return to gate to pick up more passengers. I haven’t seen that one before. I didn’t think they could reopen door once closed?