My former skipper is a Delta pilot. Still haven't flown on a flight of his yet. I have 4 or 5 other friends who fly for United, but I started flying Delta about 15 years ago. Every now and then I have to fly them, but try not to. I won't fly American or US Scare. Southwest can suck a dick.
I like Delta. I'm diamond with them and get treated like a rock star. I get tons of free ****. I told a story on the Blue Lot the other day.
Was delayed coming out of HSV and my long connection planned for some lunch turned into a 20 minute cross terminal connection raging sprint in ATL, or so I thought. When we pulled in and I got off the plane, there was a lady waiting in the jetway with my name on a sign. Long story short, she leads me and my two non status colleagues down the stairs (where they pull the carry on bags from) and put us in Porsche Cayenne and drove us to our flight and walked us up the stairs right to our seats. There was another guy not with us in business class with me who didn't make it. Only thing I can think is that Inhad diamond status and he didn't.
I don't fly much ... so my experiences have been almost the opposite. Buddy getting married, gets buddy passes for everybody and I'm trying to fly out of Reagan at the same time UMD is in the final four in Atlanta. They have flights going every hour on the hour beginning at 6AM. I'm 2nd on the waiting list on the first one, don't get on. Then I'm 5th, then 10th, then 20th, then 30th .... finally it's 6pm and I've been sitting in the airport all day. I go to another counter ... is there ANYway for me to get where I'm going without going to Atlanta first? They put me on a flight with a 2.5 hour layover in DFW, finally get to LAS about 3 in the morning my time.
On the flight back, I didn't get out of LAS at all on the day I was supposed to leave, but my bag was already on it's way, so I literally had nothing but the clothes on my back and made my way back to the hotel. One friend killed it at the tables the night before so we hung out by the pool drinking margaritas all day and I got out a day late. I did get bumped to first class on the flight back though, which was nice.
Same thing happened when we all flew down to ATL for the Sugar Bowl. Storms delayed everything the day we were supposed to leave so we had to stay another day ... another night at Fadoes ... bummer.
