Delta Enhancing Transcon Service in All Cabins, Moving Transcons to T4 at JFK
Feb 22, 2013, 8:21 am
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Nice move - upping the distance vs UA VS and AA.
And can buy premium wine in coach (Meomi) as well.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/delta-to-make-investments-in-the-customer-experience-on-transcontinental-flights-2013-02-22
Nice move - upping the distance vs UA VS and AA.
And can buy premium wine in coach (Meomi) as well.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/delta-to-make-investments-in-the-customer-experience-on-transcontinental-flights-2013-02-22
Feb 22, 2013, 8:56 am
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Delta Enhancing Transcon Service in All Cabins, Moving Transcons to T4 at JFK
Big news this morning coming out of Delta:
Delta Upgrades BusinessElite and Economy Comfort Transcon Amenities, Moves Flights to Terminal 4
Delta Upgrades BusinessElite and Economy Comfort Transcon Amenities, Moves Flights to Terminal 4
Delta Air Lines announced changes and improvements to its transcon service for flights between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Los Angeles and San Francisco. The changes will also be in effect on Delta’s forthcoming New York-Seattle flights.
Starting in May, ...
Starting in May, ...
Feb 22, 2013, 9:24 am
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We get several thousand news releases a day but our system sorts through them and identifies about 10-50 that our editorial staff needs to see (based on algorithms and keywords, etc.). Our news editor Paul saw this when it came in over one of the wires around 10 or so and wrote it up as a priority news item.
Feb 22, 2013, 9:34 am
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Wow, the Economy Comfort perks are pretty nice. I wonder if they will increase the number of seats, since it's only a few rows on the left side of the A/C on the 757s. I know they are going to have lie flats being phased in, so maybe it will just increase as those get put into service? The way it is now, those seats are gone fairly quickly and I assume they are going to elites rather than paying customers.
Also nice to be in T4 with access to the SkyDeck
Also nice to be in T4 with access to the SkyDeck
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Feb 22, 2013, 9:40 am
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I've been trying to post the release for the last hour, but I keep getting a "global network error" message and it times out. I'm sorry, guys.
Full release here:
http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=43&item=1898
Full release here:
http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=43&item=1898
Feb 22, 2013, 9:43 am
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Wow, the Economy Comfort perks are pretty nice. I wonder if they will increase the number of seats, since it's only a few rows on the left side of the A/C on the 757s. I know they are going to have lie flats being phased in, so maybe it will just increase as those get put into service? The way it is now, those seats are gone fairly quickly and I assume they are going to elites rather than paying customers.
Also nice to be in T4 with access to the SkyDeck
Also nice to be in T4 with access to the SkyDeck
Feb 22, 2013, 9:45 am
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I've been trying to post the release for the last hour, but I keep getting a "global network error" message and it times out. I'm sorry, guys.
Full release here:
http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=43&item=1898
Full release here:
http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=43&item=1898
Feb 22, 2013, 10:29 am
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I've been trying to post the release for the last hour, but I keep getting a "global network error" message and it times out. I'm sorry, guys.
Full release here:
http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=43&item=1898
Full release here:
http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=43&item=1898
Do post photos of the BE seats once you got your hands on it! (Well, subject to getting the formal company head nod.)
Feb 22, 2013, 10:39 am
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Feb 22, 2013, 10:43 am
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The new flat-bed / interior starting in March will be on the refurbished 767-300ER which are currently already flying around on international flights (it will be the 76Z with 26BE+200Y seats which are already flying routes like SFO-NRT-PEK or PDX-NRT-PVG today...). The new flat-bed seats on the 757s are the ones which are still 'unknown' (to us anyway) but those aren't scheduled to be rolled out until 2014...
Feb 22, 2013, 11:03 am
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I've been trying to post the release for the last hour, but I keep getting a "global network error" message and it times out. I'm sorry, guys.
Full release here:
http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=43&item=1898
Full release here:
http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=43&item=1898
Feb 22, 2013, 11:20 am
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The final version of the transcon 757-200 (75E) will feature the B/E Aerospace Parallel Diamond flat-bed seat in BusinessElite and the B/E Aerospace Pinnacle seat in EC and YC.
The interim mod taking place now is expanding EC from 11 seats to 25 and increasing the size of the media server in order to offer a library of up to 100 movies.
The interim mod taking place now is expanding EC from 11 seats to 25 and increasing the size of the media server in order to offer a library of up to 100 movies.
The new flat-bed / interior starting in March will be on the refurbished 767-300ER which are currently already flying around on international flights (it will be the 76Z with 26BE+200Y seats which are already flying routes like SFO-NRT-PEK or PDX-NRT-PVG today...). The new flat-bed seats on the 757s are the ones which are still 'unknown' (to us anyway) but those aren't scheduled to be rolled out until 2014...
Feb 22, 2013, 12:32 pm
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Quick question DLCropGalNYC, with the expanded ammenities in economy comfort on these routes, will they still be threated like a regular domestic economy comfort that is free for Golds and above (and silvers at check in)? Or will it be treated like international economy comfort free for Plats and above, and discounted for silvers/golds?