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“You Paid For The Seat, Not The Communal AC”: Delta Passenger Closes Stranger’s Vent Four Times, Then Demands Hot Water To Warm Up

by Gary Leff

Jun 02 2025

Most U.S. airlines have air vents above the seat. You can turn them on if you’re hot, and turn them off if you don’t want to be blown on. But who controls the vent? Does each passenger have dominion over the one above their seat – or is it a common utility, and you have to accommodate the preferences of everyone around you? Conflict on a plane can take place over the seemingly simplest of things, as one Delta Air Lines passenger learned. Currently on a flight head westbound. I am on the right side of a 3 passenger row. The person sitting in the middle has now 3 times closed my AC vent either while “adjusting” their own vent or when I stood up to go to the bathroom. The vent is pointed towards…

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“We’re Landing in Minneapolis to Save the Dog”—Delta’s 300-Mile Detour Delays 181 Passengers

by Gary Leff

May 28 2025

About an hour into the five hour flight, flight attendants were alerted that a dog was in distress. A call for medical assistance produced an onboard veterinarian who stabilized the animal, but the assessment was that the dog needed professional treatment. The Airbus narrowbody with 181 customers and six crew aboard made a 300-mile detour to Delta’s Minneapolis–St Paul hub.

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Delta Found A Way Around Tariffs—So Missoni Bedding Is Finally Coming To Business Class Flights Across The Pond

by Gary Leff

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May 09 2025

Delta was expected to start offering new bedding and a mattress pad in long haul business class in early May. That was delayed because the cost of the Missoni products become prohibitive under the new tariff regime.

Now – just like with taking delivery of new Airbus aircraft without tariffs – Delta has figured out a way around the most draconian fees so that they can move forward with the product plan.

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American Flight Attendants Got The Deal They Wanted. Delta Still Pays More.

by Gary Leff

May 01 2025

American Airlines flight attendants negotiated to get boarding pay, like Delta pioneered for its flight attendants and to get Delta’s profit sharing formula. The goal of flight attendants in negotiations at American Airlines was to get paid like Delta’s. Yet after years of negotiations, tremendous drama, and multiple attempts to get permission from a Biden administration-dominated National Mediation Board to strike Delta flight attendants still earn more. There is much confusion over this. Yesterday Delta announced a 4% pay increase for flight attendants effective June 1: Delta’s new pay scale! Thoughts? byu/No_Telephone4961 inflightattendants The airline provides pay increases every year. When flight attendant union contracts expire (‘become amendable’), cabin crew at unionized airlines go years without an increase. There’s a claim, though, that come October 1, American Airlines flight attendants will be earning more than…

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Delta Just Raised Pay Again—United’s Union Flight Attendants Haven’t Seen A Raise In Five Years

by Gary Leff

Apr 29 2025

Despite the uncertain economic environment – airlines are rapidly pulling their earnings guidance – Delta Air Airlines is giving non-union employees pay raises effective June 1. 4% increases in hourly base pay will go to ground employees and flight attendants, while a 4% pool for merit raises is established for eligible employees (some will earn bigger increases and some smaller).

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