Originally Posted by
BearX220
DL in economy is only slighly worse than European airlines in the air, although you will find no free food or alcohol on your LAX-JFK leg; they charge a fee for everything. (There will be a free meal on the transatlantic leg.) DL ground handling, especially at JFK, is appalling. The JFK staff is hateful and the facilities haven't been appreciably improved in 40 years -- they're the old Pan Am facilities from the '70s and totally overwhelmed by human traffic.
Yikes! Doesn't sound good. No free food? It's a six hour flight! Delta are not a budget airline, I expected complimentary food and beverage would be standard. I've never known a full service, scheduled airline to charge for meals. Wow.
Presumably there's no policy prohibiting customers from bringing their own food on board?
DL ground handling at JFK is appalling? That's worrying. We'll be travelling with a pushchair and a child's car seat in the hold. What's the chance of them losing / damaging either?
I've just thought, we're also travelling internally with Delta on this trip, JFK-LAX. Will that flight be foodless, too?