Originally Posted by jimrpa

I am not joking. I own both an iPhone and an iPad and find both to be very valuable devices.

Think about what you would primarily use an airline app for? You'd use it to view flight status, check in, check for flight updates, review itineraries, both current and upcoming, and potentially purchase tickets. Basically, all transactions that require communication back to "the mothership". About all you'd use the app for in an "offline" mode is reviewing cached flight schedules and possibly viewing static content like seatmaps.

Hence, the effort being spent to develop an iPhone app is stupid and wasted, especially in Delta's case. As I said, if Delta had a robust, functional, platform-cognizant and platform-agnostic website, they essentially wouldn't NEED an iPhone app or an iPad app. They could simply do a web clipping (which, to the end user would look exactly like an app).

Thanks for playing.