I'm in the air on DL 1052, on the way to ATL and TPA.

When I did an OLCI early this morning, I was #3, with 2 F seats avail. At the gate, the agent called 3 names and took our BPs, about 15 min later (as zone 3 was boarding) my name was called, she returned my bp and said, "sorry, not going to happen this time..". So I took my seat in coach.

At the very end of boarding, an agent came on with a boarding pass, came to my seat, asked if I was xxx, and gave me my new bp, 6a.

Very, very nice. This has happened to me before on NW, but being new to DL and their operation, from what I have read on FT, this is not normal for DL.

Is this sop for DL, or was I just very fortunate?