Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
11-02-2008, 03:54 AM
#2261
seeing the large hubs...
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: 73N A
Posts: 3,747
Well, now that the machinists voted to end the Boeing strike, maybe they can get the aircraft flowing again and this AE will be published.
11-06-2008, 07:06 AM
#2262
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2006
Position: MadDog gear slinger
Posts: 568
Dcc?
Do we have a DCC yet? I can't seem to find the actual date refferenced anywhere, and no one I've flown with seems to know.
11-06-2008, 07:15 AM
#2263
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: Legacy FO
Posts: 4,105
DAL is now charging for first checked bag.
It has been announced that DAL will now start charging for the first checked bag. 
Personally, I think this is a big mistake.
-Fatty
Personally, I think this is a big mistake.
-Fatty
11-06-2008, 07:26 AM
#2264
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: Dismayed
Posts: 1,598
29 Oct. According to a "Right from Richard Message". Most of the terms of the new KCBA became effective at 0001 on the 30th. Verified by memo from Steve and in the latest issue of Trim Tabs.
11-06-2008, 07:28 AM
#2265
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: Dismayed
Posts: 1,598
However, we lowered our price for the second ticket so now instead of $50 to check a second bag it will cost you $40 for two bags (15 for first and 25 for second).
11-06-2008, 07:42 AM
#2266
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: Legacy FO
Posts: 4,105
We should have produced a commercial similar to SWAs, Fee's Don't Fly With Us, to educate the public on who was charging for bags. I think it is stupid to have a fee simply because the public didn't know we weren't charging (take directly from the announcement).
-Fatty
-Fatty
11-06-2008, 10:15 AM
#2267
Banned
Joined APC: Feb 2008
Position: The Beginnings
Posts: 1,317
Well, the smart traveler's have already figured out that:
1. It's easy to get 2 large bags through a TSA checkpoint.
2. If one (or both) of the bags don't fit in the overhead of the plane, they can just gate check it for free and pick it up in baggage claim.
I'm not peachy-keen on this charge either, but it really is a tax on stupidity, more or less. I think the amount of people who plan to check bags has dropped considerably over the past decade, anyway.
11-06-2008, 10:50 AM
#2268
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2008
Position: Urban chicken rancher.
Posts: 6,070
Yep, we had about 150 smart travelers coming out of MCO yesterday. What a nightmare...and what a dumb marketing idea.
11-06-2008, 11:04 AM
#2269
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2006
Position: 330 B
Posts: 1,622
The timing couldn't be worse. They didn't have these fees when gas was through the roof. So now that RA's compensation (millions) for the merger was just made public and the price of fuel has just gone down recently, they think its a good time to start nickel and diming? And in the press release, they say its "to align their policies with NW. Way to really pi$$ off pax.
Plus now you will have more pax trying to bring more and more large carry-on bags with them which is going to delay boarding and take up every inch of space in the overheads.
Plus now you will have more pax trying to bring more and more large carry-on bags with them which is going to delay boarding and take up every inch of space in the overheads.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
