Very few nonstops in Pittsburgh or international flights. It used to be a US Air hub, but now they are downsizing the airport.
I’m in the air on Delta from JFK to LAX, our outbound flight was a week ago. Both Delta One. My wife and I are Delta Plt and lifetime AA Plt. We switched to Delta after an abysmal flight from Philly to Budapest five years ago. These transcon Delta aircraft are dogshit. Haven’t been refreshed in decades. This is Delta’s most expensive continental route and Delta One are the most expensive seats. It is astonishing that Delta refuses to modernize its most expensive and profitable route. I’ll burn my few remaining Delta SkyPesos and be done with them unless and until they modernize the aircraft on the routes we most often fly (JFK, LHR, and CDG).
We fly this route every month or two. Next flights will be on another airline.
If you fly transcon, avoid Delta.
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AA’s A321 in F spanks UA Polaris and it’s not even close w/r/t DL’s transcon 767’s
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We are going back to AA.
Free agent is best.
For LAX to MSY, Delta has a nonstop. AA is a connection. And AAs first class seats on the regular 321, 737s A320 and A319s are torture, let alone economy.
For LAX- JFK, on the 3 class AA321T AA is great in both business and coach. And their F seat on E-175s are really nice.
Status used to mean upgrades, very rare now. Want F, buy F.
And for LAX-LAS or LAX- SFO, Southwest has better coach seats than AA
And since SW stopped Bur-LAX, I will be going United as Burbank is easier for me to get to.
I’m also an AA lifetime platinum. Except for lounge access when flying internationally in Y (which for me is usually just intra-Europe, pretty much can get the same benefits with a cobranded credit card.
I don’t care about status anymore because it is useless. I give my SkyPesos to my kids who use them for coach transcon flights.
Going forward, I’ll continue to fly AF and VS up front using Chase points. It will be a long time before my ass sits in a DL seat again.
Don’t write off DL. Their A330 up front class might be the best domestic carrier product from North America to Europe.
Flew CDG-SLC last fall and it was fantastic. Doors that close, private suites!
I’m writing off DL because its customer service is as shitty as the Delta One seat I’m sitting in as I write this.
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Doors that close suck in my opinion, at least on BA. Haven’t had them in Delta to be honest.
They aren’t tall enough for privacy and they take the space from your pod, making it narrower. If they were roomy, a different story.
My favorite business class seat would be a 77W on AA if in good condition. Personal storage, roomy. Not a787/788/789 though. Not on AAs 773 either (newer, cramped seats).
Don’t get me wrong, Delta one suites are better than my usual Iberia lie flat coffin, but I get that for 47k miles off-season lax-mad regularly. It’s the doors on the newer seats I dont think much of.
Was there any personal storage in the Delta suites? I heard little. I’ll be flying a Delta business class m taken over from LAN without reconfiguration. Supposed to be wider than the regular seats, but not direct aisle access (which won’t matter on this flight since I’m with my wife). Have to go AKL-LAX-MEX to get it for 95k miles (AKL-LAX was 350k),
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Agree that this is a great flight/seat.
I’ve flown enough on the US domestic airlines (and had status at one point or another on most of them) to not believe in ditching one of them over even a pretty egregious screwup. Because I have seen (often directly experienced) ALL of them screwing up and providing terrible service in the aftermath. I’m not going to claim that they’re all the same, but they’re not that far apart, and switching from one to another won’t materially reduce the likelihood of you getting screwed over again, IMHO. I wish we had options for airlines that I could actually trust to provide good service, but we don’t, so now that I’m in my post-status era, I just fly whichever one has the best option for a given trip (within reason; I don’t do Spirit, Frontier, etc.).
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Especially since a co-brand credit card gives you many of the same perks that stays goes, now that upgrades are very rare.
Well my wife isn’t getting divorced from Delta-at least not this year. I stumbled upon this article regarding Delta upgrading some flyers status for 2024. She had just fallen short of the necessary MQD’s for maintaining Diamond status, so she was now Platinum. She was bummed. So I go to login to her account to get her departure time and airport for tomorrow, since I will be driving her. And lo and behold she is Diamond once again. She is going to be pumped. I’m not sure if I should show her the article, have her logon and see if she notices, or say nothing. Decisions, decisions.
Strange - my profile shows “2025 status progress” with trips in 2024 pending. Doesn’t say anything explicitly about 2024 status, but still shows me as gold (I was going to miss on $). Assuming they did the same for me.
I told her I called Delta and begged.she didn’t fall for it. Oh well. Was hoping for a “fun” start to the day.
Unless she gets an email from DL regarding soft landing, I’d expect her 2024 Status will change (downgrade) on Feb. 1.
My 2024 Status still shows as Diamond, but I only expect to be Gold on Feb 1.
I thought it would change Feb 1 too, but since January 1 it was Platinum. Prior to that it was Diamond . And now it is Diamond again. Odd. My wife was close on MQDs.
I was borderline for 360 this year but made it. They must be parsing through their frequent flyers and looking at other factors.
I have a fun argument to have with them. They said that you can use 100,000 MQMs to keep your status level from 2024! I have enough MQMs to do this for 15 years!
I am sure they will say 360 is not an official medallion level or some other B.S.
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