I am very confused about when one reports a luggage irregularity. UA wants it when you are at your last point (i.e. ATL for me), but BA wanted it right then (even though I was connecting to DL). As time was running short, I elected to defer until I got to DL. (after all, as tkting carrier I've got a little more pull with them).

DL IAD-ATL

Utterly forgettable, but 2 pleasant touches--pilot welcomed aboard the "Rome High School Group" which had just spent the week in Washington, and the head flt attendant came around to individually thank us for using DL. Nice touch

Baggage claim at ATL.

Apparently, luggage cked in by a service company can't be tracked by DL before there is a report made, so they had no luggage there for me (I thought they might have kept it on the CPH-ZRH flight then sent it on the afternoon ZRH-ATL flight). So now I have a file number with DL.

Disappointed that I couldn't make the SR flights. I wanted to try them, and they had a much more attractive schedule, and I could have flown on 2 different new (to me) aircraft. Boo hiss. Delta had BETTER give me the miles for this b/c it came in just under the threshold for 6 biz/first segments for 25000 bonus miles.

JL