TravelBuzz! - Delta Air Lines System Timetable

Can Someone tell me how Delta expects me to know all the possible flight connections in their new system time table? It now only shows non-stop and direct flights. I am livid!!! It's now useless. I wish I could fly only non-stops....but that is not how the majority of their flights, or any airlines, are set up. I think those that fly Delta should demand they reprint the dumb thing. Try using it and I think you will agree.

It's just like the Northwest timetable. You build your own connections. If you are a Delta flyer, figure you will make your connections in either Atlanta, Cincinnati, Dallas/Ft Worth or Salt Lake City.

Let's say you want to fly from Tampa to Seattle. Look for a convenient flight from ATL to SEA and then for a flight that gets you into ATL from TPA with an hour or so for connection time.

UA timetable still has connections.

With Delta counting pennies these days, the new Worldwide Timetable must be cheaper to print!

AA tried that for one quarter and then changed back

NW has been doing the nonstop and direct flights only timetable for many years.

CO did the non-stop and direct flight timetable for a long time. This year CO started putting in connections.

This is NOT FREE but The American Express's
SKYGUIDE lists many connections as well
as direct flights for U-S airports and many
overseas. It lists ALL the airlines for
each destination.

It's 65 dollars a year, but I figure the time
I save getting information on flights from other it balances out in the end. CATMAN

Wouldn't it be great if the airlines would start including the system timetables on their web sites? Obviously you can punch in to/from in searching schedules, but it would be great if you could punch in a city, and then have it provide you results of all the cities that you could fly to and their schedules, much like the system timetables used to.

Jeffrey, it would be nice if Delta's website would allow you to do a search for e.g. New York - London. At the moment all you get is 'route not valid' and you have to build your own via ATL or CVG. That sounds easy, but you have to remember the arrival times and remember the valid connection times at each airport and so on.... Moreover, the old site made you specify a particular city airport so you couldn't search for 'New York' or 'Washington'. I haven't had the heart to try the new site yet.

Catman's suggesiton is very good; do you still get bonus SkyMiles for the OAG guide? However, I too think this is a big, backward step on Delta's part. Those clunky old timetables with all the connections were too big 98% of the time, but the other 2% are the times when you really need the information, often in a hurry.

Fill in a complaint card each time you fly - it may not work, but it's the least we can do. If we don't tell them, they can't rectify it.

The AS timetable included connections up to about 8 years ago, but frankly, I prefer timetables without the connections listed. It just clutters the format, IMHO, and I can figure out my own connections. They have the same timetable available on the web.

I am still waiting for the new timetables to reflect all the possible connections like they used to. Does anyone know when this will happen?

This very old thread pre-dated the "MilesBuzz" and TravelBuzz" separation. As it has been bumped by the OP, it no longer belongs in the "Miles" related archive. I'll redirect it to TravelBuzz for future commentary.

The discussion should remain about overall system timetables, which it originally morphed in to (rather then exclusively about Delta).

I am confused. I have Delta's schedule software on my laptop.

I downloaded it from the Delta website under "mobile tools"

Schedule is up to date (software has an update schedules button which I click about once a week). Shows non-stop, direct and connecting flights. I can enter airports and dates. Also shows the freq of the flight (7 days or no Sat).

I use it regularly to plan my travel.

Can someone explain what I am missing in this thread?

The pdf schedules that DL generates do not contain the possible connections that they used to. They only contain non-stops and direct flights, but no connections.

http://images.delta.com/delta/pdfs/flight_schedules.pdf

Take BUR for example. I never fly just BUR-ATL or BUR-SLC. It's always someplace forward. If I am flying BUR-JFK, I have to go look up to BUR-ATL and then do the same for ATL-JFK. Why can't they just include it in one place?

The schedules used to show connections, so that if you wanted to fly BUR-ATL-JFK, you could look at the schedule in one place with out jumping from page to page. It would be nice if they did that again, especially in the pdf version.

Can you imagine how big that file would be if it showed every possible connection between every city pair (even if they were domestic-only) that Delta serves?

Can you imagine how big that file would be if it showed every possible connection between every city pair (even if they were domestic-only) that Delta serves?

Yes I can. And unfortunately, that's all it is right now. Imagination. And inconvienence...