Originally Posted by SJC ORD LDR

No one on this board, except for an employee who can look up load information actually knows what really happened. But, we have plenty of data points to make some assumptions based on the conditions of the Delta operation earlier this week.

I can assume that DL isn't lying and they flew some private jets where they said they did in the article.

I can assume that they probably don't care for Ma and Pa Kettle enough to give them a ride in a private jet. However, they do care about their HVCs enough to do that.

I can assume that the planes that went out to those same locations as the private jets had a 100% load factor on the day they sent the private jets out due to a myriad of cancellations and a backlog of passengers waiting to go to where they needed to go.

I can assume that those people who were on the private jets would be higher up on the standby/rebooking priority list than the average passenger.

Based on all those relatively safe assumptions, I can deduce that those seats that would have been used by those who took a private jet instead went to other displaced passengers.

Originally Posted by TheMoose

It's odd that they blurred out or obscured the tail numbers of all the planes in the video, especially when their fleet pages list all of the tail numbers. One I saw was not blurred out, but partially obscured, which you can see at 24 seconds in, ends in "WC". Based on that, and confirmation from the pictures on their fleet page: http://www.deltaprivatejets.com/light_jet.aspx

N226WC is the plane shown taxiing. However, it was not in ATL or any of the supposed destinations for these customers.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N226WC/history

Feel free to search the flight history of the rest of their fleet to do similar analysis.

I realize that piece could have been stock footage, but if you were at the airport interviewing these customers, why not use the footage from that day?