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The first rule of any all you can eat buffet is that you can consume food while you’re there, but you can’t pack of extras and take it with you. Yet a Delta Sky Club member was spotted filling up plates of food, and packing himself several meals to go – mostly ribs, garlic chicken, associated sides and chocolate chip cookies.
Southwest Airlines is blowing up their brand. They’re eliminating ‘bags fly free’. They’re introducing basic economy fares. They’ve devalued Rapid Rewards. American Airlines already stepped in to recruit Southwest’s best customers. Now Delta is doing the same.
Delta has come out with a new set of trading cards that you can get free from a pilot.
A flight from Kansas City to Phoenix diverted when a passenger kept flicking the lighter they’d brought on board – and wouldn’t give it up when a flight attendant tried to confiscate it.
Delta SkyMiles is one of the least valuable frequent flyer programs for mileage earning and redemption. It’s that way intentionally. But it has been even worse for Europeans, and for members who want to book one-way tickets back from Europe.
Delta Air Lines filed an 8-K this afternoon with updated financial guidance, in advance of presenting at J.P. Morgan 2025 Industrials Conference. And the news is not good. They’ve cut first quarter revenue growth in half – and earnings per share down 50% – 70%.
The most famous Delta Air Lines flight attendant is Katherine Hinton, the former Katherine Lee, known as Deltalina. It was the finger wag in a safety video 17 years ago – “smoking is not allowed” – that did it.
Some of the routes Delta has been running have been ‘intra-Texas’ flights that seemingly make no sense, other than they are short flights using cheap outsourced planes. Cities include Harlingen, McAllen, and Midland, Texas. Harlingen and McAllen seemed like super-strange choices at first, since they’re just 45 minutes apart from each other by car.
Delta Air Lines will be announcing new service from Atlanta to Marrakech, Morocco. It’s not clear what aircraft they will use for the flight, or what frequency they’ll offer.
This captain is a hero. Some passengers are nervous. Some captains are on ego trip, or find passengers the most inconvenient part of their job. This pilot is a servant leader.
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.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
