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140 members of the House of Representatives have written to Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian telling him to stay out of union organizing efforts at the airline, and remain neutral. This is dumb.
Earlier in the month I flew to LA as a favor to Peter Greenberg, to speak at the Travel Adventure Show. I flew out on a Saturday, back Sunday. I didn’t want to leave too early, since I didn’t actually need to speak until Sunday, and wanted to fly back as quickly as possible after I was done. United, American, Southwest and Delta all operate the Austin – Los Angles route and both ways Delta had the schedule that worked best for me.
A Delta Air Lines passenger was photographed pulling out a razor and shaving his head at his seat.
Despite having access to a dedicated lavatory mere steps away – where he’d have access to a plug, a mirror to see what he was doing, and privacy – he decided to perform a follicular challenge in the passenger cabin.
It’s actually coach passengers with access to Delta Sky Clubs that are likely to see the greatest benefit, because those lounges are generally attractive facilities with good food and beverage options. What those passengers need most is for existing lounges to be a quiet respite from the terminal. And these Delta One lounges will go a long way towards making that happen.
Ms. Archbold boarded the flight and then was approached by an airline employee and was told that her attire violated Delta’s dress code.
Her trip had been for promoting a liquor brand at the Sundance Film Festival, and thought when she was approached that she was in for a scolding over her checked suitcase full of vodka bottles. It was actually her lack of a bra.
Delta decided they needed to plant their flag in Austin, realized they needed a place to send planes in order to do so, and as an afterthought told Midland, Texas they’d be coming – only just before announcing it to the public.
It turns out there’s also amazing availability now through summer on a variety of Delta transatlantic routes as well, which can be booked for 50,000 Virgin Atlantic points each way without surcharges (and Virgin partners with most bank currencies).
Specifically, 9 or more seats available on some routes February through August.
Airbus has submitted a request to the FAA. to allow it to put business class suites with doors on Airbus A321neo narrowbody aircraft.
Customers were quick to flee Delta after the airline announced major changes to earning status and accessing its airport clubs. Loyalty Status Company CEO Mark Ross-Smith says that “100,000+ high-value frequent flyers did a Status Match in 2023” and that this was “[m]ainly driven by the Delta SkyMiles changes.”
Delta Air Lines earned $5.2 billion in 2023 and will pay out $1.4 billion in profit sharing with employees getting about an extra month’s pay.
Delta flight attendants have it better than their peers. They have something real at risk. This isn’t crew at the bottom where a union organizer can point to a better life somewhere else and say ‘we can get you that’. Unionized crew at American and (AFA-represented) United look at what Delta flight attendants have with envy.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
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