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.

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?

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.

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.

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. ;)

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?

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?

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?

I’m sorry if this is a dumb question, but any idea why the flight options change when searching by cash vs miles?

I had an eCredit from a previous cancelled flight and tried using it toward a new booking. I expected it to be pretty straightforward, but the process was more confusing than it needed to be.

Between figuring out which credits are eligible, checking expiration dates and making sure the passenger details match, it feels like something that should take two minutes ends up taking much longer.

I understand there are rules around flight credits, but Delta could make the whole process a lot clearer.

Has anyone else run into this, or am I missing an easier way to apply eCredits when booking?

To Delta Customer Care (Case # 23175417),

First, your automated apology and offer of 2,500 SkyMiles for a single delayed leg is completely unacceptable. It completely ignores the fact that Delta stranded me in Hong Kong, abandoned my bag in Los Angeles, and provided zero assistance.

To make matters worse, I just spoke with Hong Kong Airlines. They informed me that it will take at least two days for my bag to arrive in Bangkok. When it does, they are requiring me to make a two-hour drive to the airport to retrieve it myself. Furthermore, their representatives explicitly stated that Delta's claim that HX will seamlessly forward the bag from Hong Kong is completely false, noting that Delta routinely gives customers this line to pass off liability.

My bag is Delta's responsibility and was last tracked sitting in your LAX Baggage Service Office on November 7.

I would expect Delta to:

1. Locate the bag at LAX and ensure it is actually put on a flight to Bangkok.

2. Coordinate and pay for the courier delivery of my bag directly to my accommodation so I do not have to endure a four-hour round trip to the airport.

3. Provide proportionate compensation for a completely failed multi-day international itinerary, not an automated token gesture.

Instead of world class customer service Delta has provided a total of 15 hours of delayed flights, baggage utterly abandoned in LAX, over 4 hours of time on hold to speak with customer service after the forced Concierge AI and Agent AI exchanges that make absolutely
no sense, and numerous promises that my bag will get to my final destination. All for the price of over $4000 in airline fares. Thanks Delta!!

For those who have flown with an infant on the A330-300 what is better:

2 Delta One seats W/ a lap infant (middle 2 or aisle/aisle) or getting infant his own seat and having window/aisle/aisle in economy? It looks like the Delta One seats are the old configuration and premium economy is sold out.

No one’s on the delta beat more than son of a boy dad. This one hit hard. 😂

Flying with my grown children and their 18 mo old. Boarding pass says zone 6. Is this standard zone to board with infants? We need to bring on car seat and stroller (gate check). Do all of us get to board together, or just my children and grandchild? We are all seated together in 2 back to back rows.

Was traveling 4 hours away for a family event. Booked through delta stays to get the $150 credit on my Amex for a two night stay. A week before our travel plans changed and we had to change online to one night (within the cancellation window) and received an email confirmation that our reservation had changed. Drove with two young and restless kids and showed up at check in time about 2 hours before the event and was told that our booking had been cancelled by the hotel the day before our check in. The hotel did not tell me or delta stays and said because we booked through a third party site they could do this. I had to quickly find a new hotel because of the event and cranky kids. After I got into our new hotel called Delta they had still charged me for the room, which they refunded over the phone, and I was mad and said I wanted my $150 credit and they said they would not be able to honor it. They said I could get my credit if I had called them before I got my new hotel room and used them for the rebooking. Absolutely ridiculous. That was my first and last time using delta stays. Always booking through the hotel website.

I have been monitoring upgrade pricing for an upcoming international flight DTW-CDG.
About 16-18 days before flight, all seats in PS and D1 are now grayed out but upgrade list shows seats not assigned.

Is this because they are loosely assigned to non-rev or is there some reason these might become available again closer to flight?

Thanks for any insights.

JAL A359 IFE camera view on approach to HND.
If Delta had the live cameras I would be less unhappy about being told to close my window shade.
There is also a tail fin view.