Great IROPS handling on DL 2229 today!
Just wanted to thank Delta for taking care of my sister and her husband who were supposed to be on DL2229 tonight from DTW-MIA. They arrived in DTW only to find that the flight was cancelled (an 8pm departure---no options later tonight obviously). Anyway, where the amazing service came into play was when they received a Message saying there flight was cancelled and they were rebooked. Deltamatic had them booked on a TWO STOP itinerary tomorrow through CMH and ATL and arriving in the late afternoon. That obviously wasn't too appealing so they decided to call me and I called in and got an awesome rep that was really helpful and said that he would see what he could do. A minute later he came back on the phone and said that he had rebooked them on the AA flight non-stop at 6:30am that got them in at 9:30am. It was just really nice to see DL actually using another airline and still giving them a hotel (a nice one at that!), meal vouchers ($6, $10 and $10 each) and friendly service tonight even though neither of them have status. It really didn't ruin their vacation plans either because they get a nights stay at a nice hotel tonight (got to the hotel at 6:45pm) and a decent rest plus arrive early enough tomorrow to enjoy the day. These kind of situations are the reasons that I choose DL, it is nice to know that DL wants to help when stuff goes wrong! Thanks to the agent that helped me tonight whichever call center you were at! ^ Hopefully all the passengers on 2229 who were impacted tonight got taken care of like my sister and her husband!