Delta Airlines......record profits but FIRST CLASS among the worst of the Airlines in U.S.

[CMStPnP]

The newest Delta low and I have seen this airline scrape the bottom before in Texas when they served me Kool-Aide instead of soda on a Dallas to San Antonio flight.

Anyways, this is really crappy, Dallas to Twin Cities, lunchtime flight and they pass around a basket of bags of popcorn, granola bars and bannanas instead of offering any meal service.    Then I get to see Delta's new glasses for serving drinks.....can't be more than 3-4 oz, in fact they are so small they can't put regular ice cubes in them.    This is Delta's FIRST CLASS Domestic service.

Pretty sad.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Are you sure that it was First Class and not Business Class?  There isn't a whole lot of difference between the two except in some of the amenities.

[rdamon]

I fly over 150,000 miles a year on Delta and have never seen kool aid.  If you ask nicely they will gladly give you the full can of soda.

 

Hot meals on most flights disappeared 15 years ago this month.

[CMStPnP]

CSSHEGEWISCH

Are you sure that it was First Class and not Business Class?  There isn't a whole lot of difference between the two except in some of the amenities.

Yes, First Class on the Ticket and .........most airlines do not offer Business Class domestic unless it later becomes an international flight.

[CMStPnP]

rdamon

I fly over 150,000 miles a year on Delta and have never seen kool aid.  If you ask nicely they will gladly give you the full can of soda.

Dallas to San Antonio.....Delta Coach approx 1998 or 1999, they had a lot of duct tape on the overheads as well.   Delta was known back then for flying 30+ year old jets.

rdamon

Hot meals on most flights disappeared 15 years ago this month.

See I don't even have to respond to this as most readers will see your a Frequent Flyer on Delta and your just making a blanket statement.......which of course is not true but typical of these forums.

[schlimm]

Have you flown recently?

Delta First Class food depends on distance:

http://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/traveling-with-us/onboard-experience/first-class.html

Same with American:

https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/experience/dining/first-and-business-class-dining.jsp

United is similar, but goes by time of day and length of fight in minutes:

https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/inflight/first/dining.aspx

 

 

 

[Buslist]

schlimm

Have you flown recently?

Delta First Class food depends on distance:

http://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/traveling-with-us/onboard-experience/first-class.html

Same with American:

https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/experience/dining/first-and-business-class-dining.jsp

United is similar, but goes by time of day and length of fight in minutes:

https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/inflight/first/dining.aspx

 

 

 

 

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Interesting that UAL has a choice for flights from 

2hrs.20min.to2hrs.30min.Footnote ²

a whole special selection for that 10 min window. I wonder what is the real story there!

On a side note (even though this is supposed to be a rail forum) I recently flew from ORD to BOS both ways on UAL (used to fly every week, this was my first trip this year) got a great fare both ways ~$100, and the new 737-900s are excellent (although my daughter who is a commercial pilot says as airplanes they are dogs).

So what's next, a thread on our latest ferry experience?

[dakotafred]

Buslist

 

 

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So what's next, a thread on our latest ferry experience?

 

 

 

 

 

I dunno, it's useful as a comparison with Amtrak first class, which is a topic on here from time to time.

[CMStPnP]

schlimm

Have you flown recently?

Delta First Class food depends on distance:

http://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/traveling-with-us/onboard-experience/first-class.html

Same with American:

https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/experience/dining/first-and-business-class-dining.jsp

United is similar, but goes by time of day and length of fight in minutes:

https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/inflight/first/dining.aspx

 

 

 

 

I have not flown Delta recently, hence the shock at how crappy.    

OK the chart is what I have been experiencing on American........so American is better and more consistently follows the chart which I suspected and I'll stick with them going forwards.     I'm usually 800-1200 miles one way.

Interesting that Dallas to Chicago is an exception and they are continuing on with hot meal service on those flights.

[Buslist]

CMStPnP

Interesting that Dallas to Chicago is an exception and they are continuing on with hot meal service on those flights.

 

 

Chicago folks or those that are visiting are SPECIAL! 

BTW my latest ferry boat experience (a month and a half ago) was on the B T Barnham, service as expected.

[rdamon]

I stand by my statement.

“Hot meals on most flights disappeared 15 years ago this month.”

 

One used to get a hot meal in coach on longer flights.

I think we have to thanks airlines like Virgin America and others who have helped raise levels.

And yes there was and still a lot of duct tape on the planes.  Delta has one of the oldest fleets and they keep adding second-hand planes.

https://www.quora.com/Which-airline-has-the-newest-fleet

 

 

Dallas was much better on Delta when it was a hub city.

 

Now that the Wright Amendment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Amendment has ended you should look at flights out of Love Field (DAL) if it is convenient. Virgin American operates many flights out of there.

 

 

Oh, and yes I am a frequent flyer (I think saying I fly 150,000 miles a year covered that in my O.P.) :)  And I apologize for my blanket statement, but we have seen a steady decline in service in exchange for low prices in the US. One just has to fly an Asian based carrier to see how much we put up with.

 

 

Hope you have a better experience on your next flight.