Articles tagged “delta air lines”

Delta is pursuing a maverick plan in bargain-shopping for single-aisle aircraft to replace its even older jets. There will be no advertising about having the youngest fleet in the industry.

The arrival of finer dining options and tech toys to bypass time at airports is part of a larger global trend in which airports are recreating themselves as places where passengers won’t mind spending a few hours.

Delta is wooing new business travel accounts because of the Virgin Atlantic deal, and the most-loyal passengers will getting perks reserved for the few.

Delta's trying to ensure that its premium services truly go to its most loyal customers, and this move will lead to the dropping of other hangers-on.

Delta has done a lot of apologizing lately, including to a disabled vet, and it should especially be careful about the social media whiplash potential of aggrieved musicians. After all, the video/song "United Breaks Guitars" has millions of YouTube views.

What if fees are actually beneficial, and fair, to flyers? Airlines’ reliance on fees keeps base airfares lower than they’ve been in decades while the extra costs are based on individual circumstance.

Give Delta's Fly Delta iPad app a spin. It's surprisingly good.

Delta CEO Anderson is probably right that the airline can focus on its goals while United-Continental still deal with integration problems and American is just getting started with merger considerations.

Charging for extra services such as priority boarding is one thing; gouging passengers for aisle seats in coach is another.

Delta crew should know better than to treat soldiers with such insensitivity especially after a 2011 social media flare-up involving the airline charging returning U.S. soliders from Afghanistan what was considered to be excessive bag fees.