Originally Posted by
Ryno1234
I posted this in another thread but it is somewhat applicable here. Ive been diamond on delta for the last three years. I had come to expect the treatment that I was receiving and, while appreciative, took it for granted. This became clear to me a few weeks ago;
I had to make what I called a "tour de Canada" and was in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto all in a 5 day span. I had to fly Air Canada between each city since Delta or Skyteam had no presence that I could find. It was an eye opening experience. No special line, no early boarding, no preferential seating, no nothing!! On one flight I was literally the last person to board and had a middle seat in row 344(slight exaggeration).
So, I am now SUPER appreciative of all of the benefits that come with my diamond status and enjoy every perk. It really put things in perspective for me.
I've said it before but I'll continue to say it again, because of the way many on here knock even low level status. Flying an airline as a true no-status pax in Y reminds me why I will do what I can to keep even FO status on DL. My experience on HA in HNL and OGG and BA at LCY when flying Y being the worst cases. I realized that compared to DM status, FO status doesn't receive that much, but many of the benefits that take flying from "miserable" to "tolerable" are made available to FOs.
And while some on here say it's like a Sasquatch citing, occasionally FOs even get upgraded.
My wife picked up FO status for the first time late last year and now "brags" about getting upgraded quite frequently on SEA-Pasco, WA - she's only missed one UG on the several times she's flown that route this year (she did get a reality check flying SEA-ATL and MSP-SEA earlier this year though where she was a few pages back on the GIDS screen though.
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