Is Delta the suckingest airline in the world?

[Bake]

My wife was flying back from Orlando, through Atlanta, to Jackson MS. Her flight was delayed from Orlando because the Atlanta airport was undergoing some kind of "inspection." Well, she gets to Atlanta and finds that her flight to Jackson has been cancelled, and it was the last flight out for the night. Not that it matters anyway, because according to a pilot friend of mine who checked with his flight operations center, it had something to do with Delta's "codes" (whatever the hell that means). Delta must've bombed the inspection, because ALL their flights tonight were canceled!! ALL OF THEM!!

So Mrs. B is stuck there, and the earliest flight they can put her on is not until 3:00 PM tomorrow!! Oh, and they're not doing hotel vouchers anymore (acc. to one source), or they "ran out of vouchers" (another source). Wouldn't really matter, because God only knows where her luggage is! She's now in a line about a mile long to see if they're even giving FOOD -- FUCKING FOOD, PEOPLE -- vouchers.

DELTA SUCKS. DELTA SUCKS. DELTA SUCKS.

Bake

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It's probably the MD-80 inspections:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/business/27air-web.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin

[Bake]

4. Good find!

That might just be it. God, airlines suck. But Delta sucks the LARGEST.

Bake

[Richardo]

12. They should ground every MD-80 simply because they're the worst planes ever

I've been known to change flights if it would get me to a Boeing or Airbus.

[Haole Girl]

2. American canceled 300 flights today

All due to the FAA mandatory inspection of MD-80's

[ThomCat]

3. Delta stranded me in Atlanta overnight once.

And they were no help at all. They gave us each these little bags with some toiletries in them and told us we were on our own to find a place to sleep and food to eat.
x(

I haven't flown on Delta since.

[MorningGlow]

5. Short answer: YES

Chose Delta for the first (AND LAST) time to fly cross country from NY to SoCal for my niece's high school graduation. With neurotic aunt, worrywart mother, and 3 YO first-time flier in tow. The only reason we went with Delta was because the flight times were halfway decent--left midmorning, so we didn't have to worry about MG Jr.

Luckily none of our flights was canceled, but we experienced the hell on earth that is the Atlanta airport, and delays, delays, delays--in the middle of summer, with no bad weather anywhere. Plus I think the Delta staff got their jollies out of changing connecting gates at the last minute, and they ALWAYS made sure that the new gate was at the EXACT OPPOSITE END of the airport, which was a 15 minute walk (and there were never any beep-beep trams around for my mom--we ended up boosting a wheelchair for her and the kid rode on her lap).

Frightening scene because of a gate change: We were at the new gate with several hours to spare (new later connection whee), and the gate had just closed on a departing flight. A very large, muscle-t wearing, curly mullet-headed guy with a beet-red high-blood-pressure face got there a bit too late with two teenagers. He spent several minutes banging on the door to the walkway. Nobody opened the door. The flight was gone anyway. He kept whaling on the door. Finally some Delta employees reluctantly came over, and he started SCREAMING at them because he missed his flight--because they changed the gate at the last minute. He didn't check the arrival/departure screens--he went by what was on his boarding pass. Big mistake, apparently. He kept demanding that they open the gate and wouldn't listen to them telling him that the plane was long gone. Kept screaming that they stopped to get some food at the food court ("My daughter got some cold Chinese food here--you want it?!?") because they thought they had time before the flight, then got to the right gate only to find it was now the wrong gate. Even screamed at his kids, who were mortified. I felt awful for them. At that one moment (and only then) I felt sorry for the Delta employees. Any time before or after that, not so much.

Delta: NEVER AGAIN. They are on my shit list.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. All airlines have their sucky moments

Air travel has deteriorated SO much since I first flew in the 1960s.

It's been a race to the bottom.

[greenbriar]

7. oh no American Airlines is the SUCKIEST suck suck airlines

I hate themmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Bake]

8. Oh. To add insult to injury, I'm SURE they'll lose her luggage!

!@!@#$#@!@#$%%^^%$##$####!!!!!

Bake

Note that I said "lose," not "loose." :rofl:

[rosesaylavee]

9. U.S. Airways sucks too.

They denied flying my 17 year old son on the third and last leg of his journey last month because his instrument case was 10# too heavy. Didn't matter that he had gone thru the Boston and Philadelphia airports with no problem. The staff at US Air were hanging up on other airlines trying to help him get home. The police had to intervene and help him out at La Guardia.

The days of airline civility and service are over.

[Initech]

10. I flew Delta last year and had no problems whatsoever.

Now American, I flew them a few years ago from Ontario, CA to Nashville, TN via Dallas. Dallas was shut down because of a thunderstorm, and all planes were re-routed to Abeline, Texas, where they sat on the runway for several hours. That fucking sucked.

[Capn Sunshine]

11. So , what about our tax subsidies?

Those fuckers took millions after 9-11, and millions more since then.

Sure the upper execs got their bonuses. And we got screwed.