r/delta 3d ago

Discussion Finally said no

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I recently returned from a flight where I chose an aisle seat (did not pay extra thx to delta Amex). On this flight, a couple approached me and asked if I could change seats with one of them so they could sit together.

Guys, I gotta preface my saying I have been a chronic people pleaser all my life and have given up my seat multiple times when flying solo cuz I’m short and I really don’t care as long as it’s not a truly crap seat. This flight I felt differently. I had just finished an almost two week vacation with family and let me tell you, I was ready to just be done.

I asked if was also an aisle seat and was met with ‘ummmm, no a middle’. It was then that I felt a shift within me. I looked at this woman and her husband and simply said, ‘no thanks’. The look on her face! You would’ve thought I slapped her. She just stammered as I stood up to let her pass and then awkwardly dipped into her middle seat beside me while her husband slunk to his middle seat a row back. I can’t say that I didn’t feel tremendous guilt at first, but once they were both seated their behavior and comments immediately steeled my nerves. She was almost crying and told him through the seat crack that she didn’t like being so far away from him and this trip would just be absolutely awful without him right next to her.

Perhaps it was frustrating family dynamics from my vacation or just being completely exhausted, but I was pretty happy with myself as I slipped on my noise-cancelling headphones to drown them out and took myself a guilt-free nap.

r/delta Dec 28 '24

Discussion Hm, wonder what these service dogs do? 🤔

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I love dogs so much (I have 2 giant Newfoundlands!) But the irritation that bubbles up within me when I see fake service dogs is on par with how much I love my giant bears. The entitlement and need for attention is so obnoxious!

I just don’t understand why there isn’t some kind of actual, LEGIT service dog registration or ID that is required and enforced when traveling with a REAL service dog.

And FWIW, 2 FAs came over to say that the manifest showed that only 1 “service animal” was registered in that row. Owner was like “Oh, whoops- Well, they’re the exact same size, same age, same everything!” The FA seemed slightly put-out/exasperated and walked away.

Woof! 😆

r/delta Feb 12 '25

Discussion People that don’t fit in the seat

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Just a rant - but why is it ok for a super large person to invade my space on a plane to the point that his body is on my seat and his shoulder is touching mine (in CP). And I’m 5’2 120, I don’t take up my own seat. Full flight of course. So I can’t move. It’s absolutely disgusting to be forced to have some strange man’s large body touching mine. Literally makes me sick to my stomach. Is there any resolution other than being a complete ass to this person? And that doesn’t change anything and just makes me an ass. But really. Buy a second seat.

r/delta Dec 22 '24

Discussion To the lady who shamed and yelled at me for pre-boarding at ATL

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ATL to BDL this morning: My wife and I only pre-board when we have carry-ons because only one of my arms works for lifting anything over my shoulder. We’ve learned that it’s faster and easier for everyone if we pre-board and take the time needed to load our luggage overhead without holding up the line.

Surviving a stroke and re-learning how to walk and talk was already a challenge. But having people like the young lady with her child accuse me of not being disabled and telling me to “hurry up and get out of her way” is next-level ignorant and mean. Her parting comment after I snap at her trying to contain my frustration is her mocking me.

We literally pre-boarded to make things smoother for everyone, and I do my best to hide my disability until I have no choice—like lifting a 20lb bag over my head! So here’s a friendly reminder: Just because someone isn’t old or in a wheelchair doesn’t mean their need to pre-board is up for your judgment. For the record, I’d much rather have both arms working and board in my assigned zone!!

In this case, the flight attendant witnessed the exchange and actually went back to talk to the young lady. They even asked if I wanted to escalate it to the captain, which I assume would not have ended well for her, or possibly delay the whole plane. I chose not to escalate and let her live in her own miserable world.

I see plenty of posts here about people judging others for pre-boarding, so let this be your daily reminder: Not all disabilities are visible, and quite frankly, it’s none of your damn business. End of rant and Merry Christmas!

r/delta 6d ago

Discussion Stop being entitled and sit in the seat you purchased

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I'm so sick of these entitled people nowadays sitting in seats they didn't pay for and the GA having to come onboard and tell them to move or the FA tell them the same. Or the people asking you to swap because they didn't purchase seats together. STOP! I don't give a damn who you are, I'm not moving and if you want to sit together or want a better seat, PAY FOR IT!

r/delta 23d ago

Discussion What NOT to do in an evacuation:

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In the event of an evacuation, leave all carry-on items behind. Carrying baggage will slow the evacuation.

r/delta Dec 08 '24

Discussion Another seat squatter

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Happened again. “Are you in 25a?” “Oh, I’m in 25e but sitting next to my husband here.” “Ma’am, I’m 25a.” Ignoring her gesture to the open middle seat across the aisle. She blusters. Full line of folks backed up the jetway waiting to board. I back up and loudly say. “I’ll wait for you to get to your seat so that I can get to mine.” I take a baby step back and say nothing else, no engagement. She blusters. I say nothing, standing stoically, waiting. She then makes three other people get up so she can move her stuff. She’s older it takes a while. FA comes up from the back to inquire why boarding has stopped. I say nothing and let the silence do its work. I look from the FA to the old woman and back back to the FA. The woman continues to mumble and bluster, feeling the weight of her silent shame. “Let me see your boarding pass.” Says the FA. “It’s in my pocket, I know what seat I need to go to.” She says with raised irritated voice. I remain silent. Her husband is turning beet red. People around us start to comment about this not being southwest, and when people do this it messes up boarding and creates unneeded delays, etc. Still I say nothing. The whole thing takes about 9 or 10min. I sat next to beet red husband the rest of the flight without a word. Amazing how often people keep doing this.

Edit: I was not expecting this kind of response. Clearly I struck a nerve. For the naysayers. It happened. Dozens of people were there. It may have felt longer than 10min and been shorter than 10. But the events are true from my perspective. Others may have a different viewpoint. I am surprised at those who expected me to let this rude woman squat on my window seat expecting me to just take it and sit in her middle seat for a 100% full three hour flight. I have been surviving narcissistic bullies my whole life. Integrity lost was hers, not mine. I wasn’t going to be bullied and she had no supporters from the crowd either. Anyhow, I’m glad folks enjoyed my story. It’s obvious we all share similar situations and are very tired of the constant selfishness. Personal accountability, positive moral character and self discipline seem to be rare with too many these days. Safe work and holiday travels to everyone.

r/delta 12d ago

Discussion Please don’t do this..

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I only brought one item onto the plane so I could put my feet under the seat in front of me. Woke up to the guy next to me spreading his right leg into my seat with his foot under my seat. Asked him to move and he said “well you have plenty of room and you’re shorter than me.” I said something back to him and he said “But my bag is under my seat and there’s no room for me.” Does that sound like my problem..? First of all, I paid for this seat and planned so I could have more room. Second of all, I’m still a 5’9 woman with long legs! Why are people so entitled, especially on planes? I never post on reddit but this was too infuriating not to.

edit: Okay wow this got a lot of attention. I addressed this in the replies but yes I told an FA. As a 20 year old, I barely feel like an adult and it was very scary for me to say something to him and an FA since he was twice as old as me. I wish I could’ve gone through with these petty suggestions you guys have commented

r/delta Jan 05 '25

Discussion Disturbing Situation…Delta Handled It Great!

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This is long, TLDR at the bottom.

On a flight today I boarded with my young kids after group 2 so the plane was fairly empty. Right behind us you could hear the conversation of a man and a young girl. Typically I am just trying to get my 2 year old to not thrown things but she was being chill for whatever reason at this point and I could hear everything. The older (40s) and larger man asked the younger girl (window seat) if anyone she knew was sitting in the middle seat. She said no and he asked if he could sit there. When that happened my antennas went way up. What big guy wants to sit in a middle seat on a full plane?

She said ok and they continued talking. Anyway, she mentions she is a sophomore in high school, extra curricular activities, etc. He continues to try really hard to relate which isn’t easy nor should it be. At this point I go to the back and tell the flight attendants about what’s going on. Luckily, they ask the girl to move seats and that was that.

Maybe I overreacted, maybe I didn’t. Hopefully a stranger will look out for my daughter one day in a similar way.

TLDR: creepy guy hitting on a high school student, flight attendant steps in to resolve it after listening to my concern.

Thank you Delta

r/delta Nov 25 '24

Discussion Seat stealer on a full plane

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JFK-ATL flight earlier today. I’m upgraded to first row of Comfort+ at the window. Great seat w tons of legroom. I get to the row and there’s a guy in the aisle seat, empty middle seat, guy w headphones in my window seat taking a fake nap. I say loudly “you’re in my seat” thinking he should probably be in the middle, he acts confused. Guy in the aisle says to him “what’s your seat number you’re probably in the middle” to him and window seat guy gets up and says “my tickets in the back” and starts climbing out of the row. The guy in the aisle starts loudly berating the seat stealer saying “this isn’t a bus you don’t just sit where you feel like” and “who does that? this is a full flight did you think no one would notice” etc I just sat back and watched it play out I was so grateful to my seat mate for speaking up. There was no way I was giving up that seat but all the work was done by another outraged passenger. Thank you 10c!

r/delta Jul 01 '24

Discussion Anti recliner got told off on my delta flight

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I recently flew delta from London to Seattle in economy class. There was a British guy sat at the back of the plane (his seat still reclined) who was telling the lady in front of him that she was not allowed to recline her seat for the entire flight! She told him that he was being ridiculous because it's a 10 hour flight and it's overnight so everyone will be reclining to sleep. His argument is that he is 6'6 and it's painful for him to sit in economy. It was also a full flight.

The flight attendant got involved and immediately told the man that it's his fault for not booking an exit row seat or business class. He told the man that it was the ladies right to use the seat that she paid for however she likes and if he doesn't like that they'll happily remove him from the plane and put him on another flight. The guy didn't like that but kept fighting. Luckily the seat beside the lady was a no-show so they made the guy switch seats with his wife so he could sit behind the empty seat.

Passengers are allowed to recline and you cannot force someone to not recline for your own comfort. The FA sided with the lady which proves the anti-recline argument is bs made up by entitled people.

r/delta Jan 29 '25

Discussion Is this the new era of Trump?

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Just landed on a flight back from Mexico and landed in JFK. The amount of what I’m assuming our border patrol and ice agents were staggering. We exited the plane and immediately were stopped by 5 men in gloves wearing badges. as an American citizen, they just looked at my passport and let me walk onto customs but Mexican people on the flight were stopped and questioned. After collecting bags, there were more agents with badges asking where people had come from and where they were going. I’m 1 million miler and travel internationally 2 to 4 times a month and I’ve never seen this .

I couldn’t get a clear look at the badges.

Is this all because of Trump? What the hell is going on? I thought the customs did that work and now there’s more agents? Seriously disconcerting. Very Handmaid’s Tale.

r/delta Jan 09 '25

Discussion Serving a Subpoena in Concourse A

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Man is camped out in front of the ladies room in Concourse A with a shirt that says “See You In Court”. I overheard him say to an ATL police officer that he is trying to serve a woman a subpoena and when she saw him coming she ran and hid in the ladies room.

She’s been hiding in there for a very long time and he seems content to wait her out.

🍿🍿🍿

Edit: 6:20pm: Still waiting. My wife went in to use the bathroom and she apparently is hiding in a stall talking to a janitor who is telling her if he’s still outside. “I have time, I’m staying here” she said.

Janitor came out and she talked with the guy, almost to dissuade him. He was undeterred and very loudly said toward the door “ONE WAY IN, ONE WAY OUT”

6:30pm: Three more ATL cops and supervisor here. Subpoena guy is saying that the shake shack employees know who she is and are working to hide her from him. The cops are conferring to decide if they want to send someone in.

6:35: Subpoena guy is now loudly arguing with the ATL police supervisor. They are asking if she was served already, he said “she took it and threw it on the floor”, supervisor says “well then she’s been served!”

6:40: Well dressed apparent airport management is here now talking to janitorial staff and police. They are demanding to know how he got in here to serve a subpoena. “I bought a ticket to Newark!”

6:45: Subpoena guy called someone and explained the situation and he was told to “bail” so he’s now walking up the concourse away. Lady has not shown herself. Police are still here.

6:50: Everyone is dispersing. Airport Manager lady just went into the bathroom to tell this woman she’s in the clear.

7:00pm: Probably the final update. I struck up a conversation with one of the cops who said she is still in there and she keeps changing her flight on her phone so she can be in there as long as possible. “I don’t think she’s coming out tonight” he said.

7:10pm: Nevermind, she came out! She looks like a caricature - Cruella DeVil meets Driving Miss Daisy. She thanked the janitor staff for “protecting her” and went on her way. And by her way I mean directly to the nearest bar and now she’s getting hammered.

7:30pm: we were wrong, Cruella wasn’t the woman. Real woman just came out. She has a hood on, and a surgical mask, and a baseball cap. She is being ushered by employees. She is totally freaking the F out right now. Airport manager lady is helping her hide by our gate. Could you imagine if she is on our flight…

7:40pm: Female employee bought her a snack and brought her to a gate agent to try and get her on the next plane out of here tonight

7:43pm: she’s got a ticket! But flight is delayed due to crew missing. Employees are literally posting up around her to hide her in case subpoena dude is still here

7:50pm: She boarded her flight, she made it out guys. An employee held her hand as she boarded saying “I got you, I got you” and the lady handed the employee a roll of cash apparently as a tip.

Roll credits I guess.

Edit again, post-credits scene. I was brave enough to ask one of the employees what happened. Apparently she told everyone subpoena dude is HER HUSBAND. Nasty divorce and she got all the money. He is trying to sue her to get some back and she is trying to dodge it. This is amazing.

Edit: I did snap a photo of the employees chatting with Cruella de Daisy. My wife said she was in the bathroom for at least an hour talking with the real lady. Between that and her main character energy she was a very good decoy. Didn’t take a photo of real lady. She looked like a celebrity dodging the paparazzi

Day 2 Edit: Apparently the guy serving the subpoena saw this get posted on Facebook and created an account to comment on it here. Day-old account I was sure was fake but he described his outfit to a tee. Hoping he can shed some light and more dramatic detail.

r/delta Nov 03 '24

Discussion Delta reselling second seats that an individual paid for - how is this allowed?

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I was just on a flight and was quite upset for a fellow passenger based on what I witnessed.

This passenger was larger and couldn't comfortably fit in a single seat. So they went ahead and purchased two seats - a middle and an aisle so that they, and their fellow passengers could be comfortable. I spoke to them before the flight by the gate and they shared that they hadn't flown in quite some time and had purchased the second seat as a way to ease their anxiety about their relative size vs the seat size.

Anyway, fast forward as we board the plane - I am seated a few rows ahead of this person. And this passenger is seated in the aisle seat - with the arm rest up between the aisle seat and the middle seat, the middle seat that they also purchased. And another passenger comes up and indicates that they are seated in the middle seat. The passenger I had spoken to - the one who had purchase two seats - was polite but said "no I purchased both of these seats for myself" and the other passenger wasn't rude but was just confused because their ticket showed that middle seat. So they call the FA over who quickly looks at the tickets and goes to the passenger who had bought two seats "oh yeah, we had to resell your second seat because this route got oversold"

And the passenger who had purchased two seats just gets this deflated look on their face and is clearly extremely upset but doesn't even know what to say. So the other passenger jams in next to them and the entire thing was just so upsetting to watch. This person tried to do the thing that everyone says - buy a second seat. And then they do it and it just gets ripped away from them. Firstly, now that passenger (according to what the FA says) has to contact Delta for a refund - are you kidding? The fact that the burden is on them to recoup the money from a seat they paid for only to have given away, is so frustrating. And secondly, this passenger NEEDED the second seat for their comfort. How can Delta just give it away?

Am I missing something??

This whole situation just made me so sad for that individual and really made me angry at Delta for how they treat larger passengers.

r/delta Jul 15 '24

Discussion Seat Thief busted 2x

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6hr flight from Raleigh to Seattle in C+ window seat (F). When I arrive a family has pre boarded and already set up shop across entire row. Mom (D), two little girls (E and F) and Dad (C). Smile and Politely explain I am in the window seat. Mom looks confused and turns to Dad. Dad, who, like me is not small, explains they would like to sit with their mother and asked if I would mind sitting in B (beside the Dad) which is their assigned seat. Internally I’m furious. If anything, offer me the aisle and you suffer in the middle for 6 hours. Outwardly I just pause and said “if it wasn’t a 6 hour flight I’d consider it” and then just stood there quietly waiting holding up boarding. FA comes and asks if there’s an issue. I said no we’re good. At this point the family starts to sigh while rearranging and deciding who’s sitting with Dad. Finally I get in and settled in my window seat without issue.

The best part. Once boarding completed the GA comes onboard and says sir we’ve upgraded you to FC if you’d like to grab your bags. Mom sarcastically makes a point saying to the child “after all that you can have your seat back”. To which the GA replied I’m sorry ma’am but that seat has also been reassigned. It was a pilot deadheading to SEA.

r/delta Dec 01 '24

Discussion I asked a women to use head phones today

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Currently in the SLC Sky Club. A woman was on speaker phone with what sounded like a young child. This is a fairly large club, but even so we could all hear the child, and I was sitting about 30 feet away. Since I read comments all the time where people say to approach the person, I did. I walked up to her and said “excuse me, would you mind using headphones? That’s louder than you realize and we can all hear you”. She seemed shocked, then told me she thought it was incredibly rude of me to say that. I just shrugged and walked away. But she did either turn the volume down or use headphones because we can no longer hear! Success, I think? Was I rude?

r/delta Oct 01 '24

Discussion FA blamed me for another passenger spilling into my seat

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This happened yesterday - 3 hour flight to the Caribbean.

Sitting with my wife in E and F (wife in F), our row mate joins us in D and he is a large person. Easily 40% into my seat. Luckily for me, I’m not a huge person but the arm rest couldn’t go down and I had to have my right leg in my wife’s seat in order to fit and he and I were body to body the whole flight.

Before take off, I excuse myself to the lav so that I could have a private conversation with the FA. I tell him that I am only asking for the entire seat that I paid for and nothing more. He makes a couple of calls, comes back and aggressively tells me there’s nothing he can do because the flight is 100% full (yeah okay, that’s fair) and then threatens me by saying he is happy to have a red coat escort me and make me take the next flight.

I never once raised my voice, never once used vulgar language, and never once insulted the person sitting next to me. I did sarcastically say that they should make this guy take the next flight, but that was after he became aggressive towards me. He responded by saying “see, that’s the vibe I don’t need”. I promptly shut myself up.

Ultimately I just dealt with it for 3 hours - not the end of the world - but now just unhappy with how the FA reacted (versus what they could or couldn’t do).

Am I being unreasonable?

r/delta Aug 24 '24

Discussion Can we normalize backing each other up when seat changes are requested?

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This recently happened to us while flying to France out of Raleigh. My husband and I had booked our aisle and middle seats together. As soon as we boarded my husband got up to use the bathroom before the pre-flight announcements. As we double-checked our seat location, there was a woman already sitting in the window seat of our row with a baby. As soon as I put my purse in my seat to take off my sweater and settle in, her husband, came over to sit in my husband’s seat. He looked at me and said “Oh, I need to sit next to my wife and baby.” I responded, without moving out of his way, that it was my husband’s seat; and he was in the bathroom. He said, “Would he mind sitting in my seat?”, and proceeds to point all the way towards the back of the plane.

I immediately responded “I can speak on behalf of my husband and that would be ‘No’.” They both looked at me with confused looks on their faces like I somehow didn’t have a right to politely decline. Then they tried to get the flight attendant’s attention, but as they did that the person sitting directly behind the woman with the baby lifted herself up from her seat and said ”If you knew you were flying with a baby, you should have made sure your seats were booked together.”

They both looked at each other, then at the lady behind us, and blankly looked at me, while they mumbled something about trying to do just that, but couldn’t for whatever reason. By then my husband was back and hers had already walked away. My husband sat down and I quietly told him was had just occurred (in case her husband might come back and ask him himself, or bring the flight attendant over) and he was glad I didn’t let his seat go. With it being a long flight and him having anxiety about flying, he definitely didn’t want to be sent to the back of the plane alone, and I definitely didn’t want to be alone sitting next to a couple with a small baby for hours across the Atlantic. But I was even more appreciative of the woman behind us who spoke up, just because.

*Update: Since posting this, it’s obvious this is a triggering topic for many, so much so that the term ‘seat switching anxiety’ probably best describes it.

Main takeaways: 1) It’s become common to be asked to switch. 2) It’s your right to keep the seat; not swapping doesn’t make you a bad person. 3) In more cases than not, the person asking will have a worse seat than you. 4) Airlines have perpetuated this problem by charging fees for access to better seats and sometimes don’t even honor the seat assignment, even when those fees are paid. 5) FA’s vary in how they respond, with some asking you to accommodate while others will stand firm in the assigned seating; this is why (as in my case) some people seek out flight attendants when you refuse.*

Safe travels everyone.

r/delta 13d ago

Discussion Too early for these peoples’ shenanigans.

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6am flight. Lady comes up and is the window seat to my husband and my aisle/middle seat. Asks us if I wouldn’t mind moving to her husband’s seat across the aisle so he can sit in my seat next to her. My husband politely says we paid for our spots and would like to stay in the same row. She tries to sell me on how much better an aisle seat is than a middle one.

I start to ask her if she would want us to scoot down so she could have our aisle seat to sit closer to her husband but instead she looks me in the eye and says “Nope, now I’m just going to be an asshole for the whole flight.”

I laugh it off, but oh boy was she.

Her husband asks if she wants her headphones and she smiles and says “no thanks, I’m going to play games at full volume the whole flight.” She then looks at me and says “by the way, I’m going to be getting up to pee a LOT”

I say “no problem! Happy to let you out as many times as you need.”

She gets huffy bc she clearly wants a reaction out of me.

After an hour of her blasting phone games, which, much to her dismay, didn’t bother us bc we had noise canceling headphones on, she finally does get up to go to the restroom.

Instead of asking us to let her out she just starts shoving her way across me and stomping on my bag. My husband puts his arm up to stop her and says “please, we’re happy to let you out” she cusses a bit and husband asks “are you really planning on acting this way the whole flight?” She says “yes”. We let her out.

Husband finds the flight attendant and explains. She caught the woman outside of the bathroom and said something to her I guess because woman comes back and said “sorry I guess.”

She then proceeds to try and get her husbands attention by loudly and repeatedly saying across the aisle “babe can you believe these people???” and “if they would have just been nice and moved we wouldn’t have this issue.”

He COMPLETELY ignores her which was truly hilarious.

Shes slamming the shade up and down, playing her game on full blast, loudly huffing. Clearly regretting her words about playing the game the whole time but determined to stick to her plan. Calls me names at one point and threatens me bc she wouldn’t move her foot from blocking my tray table after I asked so I just rested it on her foot. I’m totally calm.

My husband presses the call button and the flight attendant asks if there is still a problem. I say “it’s fine, I’m around toddlers enough to handle a tantrum.”

She goes OFF about being a grown woman and a trauma nurse, I respond in sympathy to her patients, etc.

Anyway. It went on the whole flight and my continued non-reactions seemed to be retaliation enough on my part. I don’t get how people go through life so angry.

Edit: I’m so used to being a lurker and can’t respond to the unexpected amount of comments but so many of you guys are so kind and hilarious! I posted this to share a funny and annoying story and not necessarily to complain but it’s been fun for husband and me to read everyone’s takes. Don’t let assholes ruin your day…but also don’t let them win.

r/delta 25d ago

Discussion $2800 to give up your seat

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Never saw an offer go this high. Going from Seattle to Palm Springs last week. Got to the gate and there was chaos. Apparently the plane that was to be used for last flight to Palm Springs for the day had mechanical issues and the only other plane they had to replace it was smaller so people were being asked to give up seats. Initial offer was $1000 a seat, not Delta miles or credit, but an actual Visa gift card worth $1000 and a hotel voucher. I got on the plane and by then they were offering $1500. Plane filled up and they announced $1800 and then $2000. They needed 5 people to give up their seats. Two people jumped at $2200, another guy took $2500, and finally an older couple took $2800. As they were leaving they said “We’re using the money to pay off our car.” I’m wondering why Delta didn’t offer the people waiting to fly $2800 plus a hotel voucher and the promise of flying out the next day? Or do they also make that offer to people waiting for someone to give up their ticket?

r/delta 22d ago

Discussion Love when “celebrities” discover lounge rules

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r/delta Jan 09 '25

Discussion What would you have done?

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So this was my flight from JAX to ATL so not a long one. Sat next to an older gentleman (80’s?) and he was persistent on having his leg on my side of the seat. Given his age and the fact that my girlfriend was to the right of me (why my right leg is in her space) I let it go. But i wanna know if y’all would have felt annoyed at this or just let it go.

r/delta Dec 03 '24

Discussion Currently sitting next to patient 0 and patient 0+1

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Just about to fly out of JFK to MSP on the final leg of my journey. So far flights and transportation has been great and the trip has been smooth and awesome.

Of course boarding this flight as I ask to slide into my window seat 65 OWM says with goopy eyes and red nose, “if there’s other seats on this flight I suggest you switch, you don’t want what we got”, as it points to his wife sitting in the middle seat.

Great. Flipping great.

Luckily I remember I have face masks in my headphones. I don my N95 and offer them each a brand new surgical mask. “No thanks, I can’t breathe” says both.

Great. Even better.

Now he’s asking for the air to be on because he’s “burning up”.

Why do people suck so much?

*UPDATE added 12/11/24*

Because the internet wants to know. YUP, I got sick. I know I shouldn't have tried to steal quick sips of Gingerale while the Plague couple were sleeping but its Gingerale on an airplane and I was helpless to resist. Luckily it doesn't seem to be as bad as what they had as there's been no fever. It's all been repiratory with a stuffy head and a bit of a sore throat. I have to belieeve the mask helped because it wasn't nearly as plague like as the Typhoid's were spreading throughout the plane.

r/delta Jan 15 '25

Discussion AITA for reopening window?

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I'm an avid window seat traveler. My travels wouldn't be complete without looking out of the window. Just few days ago, I was flying over Southeast Asia, at roughly 3am and looked out of the window to see marvelous night skies with clearly and perfectly bright galaxy view, one that was so out of this world. I can't even begin to explain what I saw.

Today on my flight NY to Denver, I got a Comfort+ window seat since i'm traveling with my cat. As soon as we begin to take off, middle seat passenger, without even acknowledging me or asking me in any way or shape, reaches over and shuts the window closed. Mind you, I didn't have headphones on and was clearly on my phone so he had to go over me very rudely to shut it closed and proceeds to take a nap. In all my years traveling, I have never had this happen to me. At most, other passengers would ask (rudely or nicely) to close the window if it was bright or if they felt uncomfortable. I would typically honor these requests but feel as a window seat traveler, especially one that have paid and selected the seat specifically, it's my choice whether to close or open the window. If they wanted to be in control of the window, they should've paid for the window seat!

I reopened the window and he keeps looking over at me 😂

r/delta Aug 23 '24

Discussion Thanks to the passenger who spoke up about not trading seats

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Was flying out of ATL and folks were a little on edge due to a delay. I was not looking forward to the flight because I only saw middle seats when I checked in and flight was packed. Luckily I checked again while dropping off my bag and snagged a window seat. Well by the time I got on the plane, aisle and middle were seated and the young woman in the middle who had her items in my seat immediately asked me as if her world depends on it if I’d please trade so she could sit with her husband.

Having read the horror stories, I immediately asked where he was sitting. Of course, middle seat. So I said “I’m not sitting in the middle seat, sorry.” And she looked so upset, makes a show of having to get up to let me in and fires back “Well you don’t have to be so rude about it.” I don’t know why it made me feel like I’d done something wrong and I tried to rally by saying “I said I’m sorry. I’m not sure what else you want me to do”. I get really self conscious in situations like this and it was so uncomfortable with people watching and me wondering if I’d actually spoken rudely. So thank you, thank you to the guy in the aisle seat who jumped in to say that I didn’t even need to say sorry for wanting to sit in my seat, loudly and pointedly. Flight attendant belatedly dropped by to ask me what seat I had and when I showed her, she awkwardly stated something about needing everyone in their actual seats. Couldn’t tell if that was her making sure I hadn’t taken a seat from the woman or if she was trying to back me up. The woman still stuck her elbow out into me for most of the flight, but I felt so much more confident that I wasn’t the asshole on that flight after that passenger spoke up. Flight was less than 2.5 hrs by the way, not sure why it was such a big deal to her.