I was on a flight home from a national sales meeting. Very tired. I chose the window seat as I planned on falling asleep. There was an old lady in the middle seat maybe 70 years old. She told me that this was her first time flying and said she’s always dreamed of looking out the window. She was definitely hinting at a switch, and the lady in the aisle seat stuck her nose in saying “if she was in the window she’d switch with her” but I didn’t ask many follow up questions she then asked if i could open the window which I did and let her gaze over me…I felt bad but whatcha gonna do amiright?

The Quiet Skies Act, H.R. 9530 introduced June 19, 2026 by Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI), Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ), Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR), and Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA)

In 2018 legislation was passed telling the FAA to ban voice calls through portable electronics on planes, but they never got around to it. This bill requires them to enact the rule within 180 of the bill's enactment.

You can track the status at congress.gov

Call your reps and ask them to get this passed.

Watched this checked box miss its flight from Austin to Seattle. Boarded the plane and watched it get put aside and left. The Seattle flight was just on the other side of the concourse. Next truck that came looked at it and just shook his head (25 minutes until SEA departure at that point). Another came, looked at it and actually radioed someone (15 minutes to go). Nobody came. We pushed back for JFK after the SEA flight.

Got served this 'roasted chicken' on a transatlantic flight in D1. I know the bar is low when it comes to food but come on Delta, this was literally inedible. Let this be a reminder to always pack a Gas X Extra Strength

I wanted to share my positive experience today.

- Flight DCA-DTW got cancelled
- Skyclub agent booked me on an American flight.
- American flight got cancelled
- Phone agent went above and beyond to fix my semi-complicated multi city itinerary for the rest of the week, kept my first class upgrades, and I got a hotel stay for tonight + uber rides to the hotel and back to the airport tomorrow via a very easy to use voucher.

Unideal to have multiple cancellations, but overall delta really came through to help me the best they could, 10/10.

Hope everyone’s travel goes smoothly the rest of this week! It’s been rough but we’re all in this together 🤪

Sitting on the plane now and the FA said there was a special announcement. I thought it would be a proposal or a special moment for the captain a big milestone.

But instead it was an ad for a deodorant!! Is this the beginning of new corporate ads?

Hey all, I’ve been getting into collecting some more delta trading cards and I’m obsessed. I’d love to trade or buy some older cards if anyone has anything available. Plz plz comment or dm!

Given the Middle East situation, I doubt this route will actually fly at this rate.

Delta was given massive subsidies to fly this route, but literal empty planes don't work for the profit margins.

I remember people squawking about the power of the ATL connecting hub, but that fundamentally doesn't matter since people aren't clamoring to go to Riyadh and it doesn't make sense to double connect in ATL and RUH to go to where you want.

DL5264 - JFK to Buffalo
I fly a lot for work and wanted to say that this was the best flight I’ve had in a long time - actually out on time, arrived on time AND nice flight attendants!

Just received an email from United with a "special New York‑area offer." I am not sure how special the offer is, maybe more accelerated than regular status matches, but they are looking to poach if anyone is interested.

I will not be going for it this time around because I am sticking with Delta in the hopes quality remains as good as it has been in the last several years, and don't want to use up a status match that I may need in the future. But I am tempted due to Delta prices, recent inconsistent service, slow wifi, and low value of SkyMiles.

What they are saying on their status match site about my DL Diamond is:

"The equivalent level in MileagePlus is Premier 1K"

So, if interested, look out for that email from UA, or reach out to them. Maybe it is beyond NYC area, but that is the message that I got.

How many miles do you think I could get for this?

Like whenever I’m in PS I always have a hard time extending the foot rest or leg rest.

Am I the only one or does anyone else have this issue

Tagged as help/advice but honestly just a rant icl

My flight was scheduled for yesterday at 9:30 p.m.

Yesterday at 3 pm we are told it’s going to be delayed to 11:30. We dawdle around the town for a bit but still get to the airport around 6:00. Sitting at the gate and they tell us the plane is having maintenance issues or something. Delayed to 11:50. Delayed to 00:20. Delayed to 00:50.

It gets to 00:10 and they basically tell us ‘we are getting the crew and pilots here, their flight lands at 00:50, and they will come straight here.’ Delayed to 1:30.

The pilots arrive around 1:15 and people are genuinely clapping and cheering as they walk past. They get on the plane and the ground crew announce ‘we are just letting the ac on the plane kick in and then we will start boarding.’

10 minutes later? ‘Our first officer has timed out and the flight will take off at 10:30 am.’

At this point it is 1:30 in the morning and everyone’s like ‘okay if it takes off at 10 we can still get a couple hours of sleep.’ Everyone leaves to go get shuttles to hotels.

As we are literally standing outside waiting for the shuttle the flight is changed to 7:45 in the morning. We debate it and then decide to go to the hotel anyway.

Get to the hotel around 2:30 and go straight to sleep, up at 4:00 because I couldn’t sleep. During the night the flight has been changed AGAIN to 8:30. We get a 5:00 shuttle to the airport and spend some time getting food and etc with the meal vouchers we were given. Finally we board the flight, push back and taxi to the tarmac. EVERYONE on board is literally sleeping because we all got <2 hours of sleep.

And IT DOESNT END THERE.

There are incoming thunderstorms and the Canadian airspace is CLOSED for at least the next 30 minutes so we have now been sat on the tarmac for just over an hour. They don’t know when this flight is going to take off or even if the flight will ever take off.

I am actually near tears because I am so tired and I was going to get 18 hours in Vermont to visit my grandparents before going home to England and those hours are slowly dwindling to a close.

Keep in mind this flight is just over an hour. The drive is 10 hours. We would literally be there by now if we just drove instead. I’m scared I won’t get to visit my grandparents and I’m so tired and exhausted of this shit.

Rant over thanks for listening.

*UPDATE*
It gets worse then better haha

After we sat on the tarmac for 2.5 hours they told us ‘the Canadian airspace will open at 10:30’. 10:30 -> they announce ‘the airspace is open… BUT we’ve been sat on the tarmac too long and we don’t have enough fuel’

So we basically had to go back to the gate, deplane, sit around for 45 minutes, then get back onto the plane. We finally took off at around 12:10, and I got to my grandparents house at 3:15 pm.

Having caffeinated myself a bit more and settled down from the stress I’m just ready to put it behind me. But I will say it has been the worst flying experience of my life thus far. I genuinely thought for a solid chunk there that the flight was just not going to happen. Every time it felt like we might go, something happened. It just felt like the flight was never going to get into the air. Even when we landed in Burlington it didn’t feel real. As we took off I kept expecting them to say ‘sorry guys we actually have to ground the plane for XYZ reason’

Thank you guys all so much for your advice and support and I hope this is not an experience I will ever repeat.

RDU-ATL-CMH
22-Jul-26

Flight out of RDU was fine. But then ATL-CMH flight delayed an hour. Then two more delays before boarding. Then board and another hour, with no explanation. Zip. Then ground crew and baggage are short staffed at CMH so slow as molasses.

If it was an ATC or weather delay they should have said so. The lack of communication from the gate and cockpit is poor service and shows lack of respect of the customer. People realize delays happen. Just communicate. So simple and easy to fix.

And oh, the Delta app showed we’d taken off before engines were spun up and before push back. Clearly someone’s trying to manipulate the KPI’s

We had a bit of an aborted landing on TPA-LGA today, unrelated to yesterday's TPA-LGA aborted landing. What are the odds?

Anyway, while people were reaching for their barf bags (lots of nauseated and unnerved passengers) I noticed my seat was rocking back and forth and was noticeably lower than the seats next to mind. A decent gap between my seat and the one next. It felt like a glider.

As a courtesy, I mentioned it to the FAs on the way out. Because technically, a loose seat is like a FAA no- no, or was back in the day lol.

They kinda stared at me blankly, but my husband told me as I passed them they eyerolled hard.

I wasn't annoyed or mad. I literally thought they should know one of their seats was broken.

I left the plane feeling airsick, irritated by two passengers fighting behind me, and wobbly from the anxiety of our scary-ish landing. (A guy was narrating loudly the possible reasons we were climbing so abruptly and none sounded great in the moment) Just let me tell you a seat is wonky without feeling like a bozo, please.

I do thank the pilots for landing.

Im flying delta next week and im wondering if anyone know if Dune part 1 and possibly part 2 are on the delta movie list. I’ve seen conflicting info so I would appreciate if someone could help

Hello! Current United Premier Gold member here considering the switch to Delta. We have a trip to Seoul coming up in November that, with another shorter Delta flight, will qualify for the status match, if I understand it correctly. My questions/advice request:

1) when would you recommend applying for the status match for trips in November/December?
2) is there any issue with when the trips were booked? I think it just matters when the flights occur.
3) any tips to try to get upgrades during the status match period? Korea trip is November - LAX to ICN via SEA in Premium Select Extra.
4) anything else I should keep in mind?

Thanks in advance for the assistance!

About a month ago I bought a family member a round trip from JFK to Hong Kong in premium select via Chase for 133k points, the upgrade price to Delta one for lax to Hong Kong was $500 so they purchased that and the upgrade price on the return was 5k so they skipped that.

A couple days ago I was checking to see the price and when I clicked it it just moved them and didn’t take me to the payment page, so I clicked done and it moved them.

I waited a day to see if I was a glitch then called them and asked them If they could send me a new receipt showing the seat assignments and they transferred me to the ticketing department and told me the ticket had been reissued and sent the new receipt showing both the flights in delta one and then shortly after I got a email from Chase saying there was an itinerary change showing the Hong Kong to lax in delta one.

Has anyone experienced this or have any insight on why it did?

Premium select is nearly empty and there was only 3 delta one seats when this happen.

I recently moved to Atlanta from Huntsville. I frequently fly to the northeast (Vermont). Earlier when I was flying from HSV, most of the time I was transferring from ATL. When I moved to ATL a few months ago, I thought my flights would be cheaper since it would be a direct flight. However, to my surprise, I found that the fares were a bit higher than what I used to pay from HSV. And now, with airfares generally being much higher than usual, I noticed that the price from HSV has barely gone up, but it's significantly higher from ATL (for example, the cheapest ones being $329 from HSV vs $449 from ATL, both roundtrip and for the same dates). Is this normal? Any advice?

If you are flying and need to charge you need to get a German / European or a UK charger.

They stay in the outlet at your seat. Get one with multiple USB outlets help your seatmates. Be the hero.

That USB port is worn out... So I'd the power outlet for US chargers.

I know a bunch of people in the airline industry and have been wondering if I could get my foot in the door as a Gate Agent this upcoming fall or winter, especially if they hire at the end of summer or before the holidays (I'm in SLC)?

Looking to leave my current marketing gig, as I'm completely and utterly burned out on where the field has gone with AI taking everything over and killing all the creativity and fun, honestly. Add in the ever-looming threat of layoffs (I was out of work for 1.5 years and that was rough) and I just want a solid, dependable job with a company that will be around in the future and isn't going to shit-can me the minute their revenue growth slows down or some maniacal CEO replaces us with a bot.

I was actually working in technical customer support for a few months, before I went back into marketing, and found myself thinking how nice it was to actually help people who came into the store, versus just churn out meaningless slop like a corporate cog. Left for the money and now regretting it a bit with the way things have moved in my industry.

No issue with fast-paced, busy environments and I love helping people out and am generally very good at communication and solving any problems that arise. I'd gladly trade my long-term stress with complex projects for the acute stress that seems to arise when you need to problem solve on the fly, like dealing with cancellations, customers, etc. I know stress is stress, but it seems like you can resolve issues at work in this position, then get to go home, whereas my stress lingers and is bothering me during after hours.

Anything I'm really missing here? Would love the input from Gate Agents. Thanks for your help.

Anyone on this mid day flight today? Operated by sky west was late out of SEA. When the got to MFR the turn around was gonna be pretty tight until the refueler had to take another 25 minutes to get gas-seems incomprehensible lack of planning. I bet 30-40 people missed their connection. Beyond frustrating.

We all saw the recent reports on how much AmEx is paying Delta with their partnership, but yesterday was the first time I heard a DL FA pushing the credit card on the flight. He even had a QR code on his badge for an "easy sign up" that he pointed out. It was also a high bonus skypesos amount (at least compared to most new sign up/retention offers). It was like 125k for a new card, and he said we could only get that through him in flight, like an as seen on TV ad.

I've heard other airlines do this as SOP with cards, but if I do fly non-DL, it's B6 or WN, so I kind of expect it from them, but I'm not sure if that's every flight or random with the legacy carriers. I primarily fly DL though, and go to ATL weekly now, and don't recall ever hearing a card push like that. Normally we just get accosted in the terminals to sign up.

Is this going to be the new norm for DL? Can any FAs chime in anonymously if this is a corporate push to hit that $10bil mark or just one FA trying to hit a quota or something? I searched the sub and didn't see anything recent being talked about.

Not a big deal obviously, 1st world problem, it just was very odd hearing it on a Delta flight. Curious if anyone else has had this recently or if anyone knows if this is going to be SOP for them too.

Edit: I also seem to be getting a bunch of downvotes, didn't mean to ruffle feathers. This wasn't meant as a dig at Delta either, I'm clearly a loyalist at this point. I was just curious if I've been lucky with not hearing it or if they were implementing it more. Seems like it's either sporadic or flight based, given the responses so far.

Are window shades required by the FAA to be open for takeoff and landing on US commercial airlines?