Originally Posted by
Often1
Not sure how anyone answers this without knowing which carrier better suits your routing, pricing, class of service, hard product, and soft product needs. What are those?
Mint may or may not be great, but it doesn't exist on most routes, while DL's F/D1 exists on pretty much all routes. Thus, maybe there is a comparison if you are a JFK-LAX flyer, but not on most routes. Same thing with lounge access, frequency, and price.
Without knowing your needs and preferences, all you get here is people telling you what they like about their particular circumstances which likely have none to do with yours, e.g., international.
Sorry I should clarify; I’m not saying Mint food sucks, I’m saying the economy food on Mint-equipped planes sucks, when it used to be really good. I’m a mostly business traveler who flies economy to save money (currently working for a startup with solid funding but as with most early stage startups we’re trying to be efficient with our funding.) lf my company could afford to put me on Mint every flight I wouldn’t be even thinking of changing airlines
As for me, I’m traveling most between west and east coast round trip, usually LAX to JFK but occasionally between LA and SF though I usually go Southwest for that given their no fee changes.
My main consideration is I need enough legroom in coach to work on my laptop (32” absolute minimum), WiFi needs to work, and food quality (either onboard or in the terminal to go) and IFE are also factors. Lounge access is also important; I’ve been doing Centurion in SFO then walking across to JetBlue, which to me is worth the 10 minute walk, but Delta SkyClub is appealing.
Originally Posted by
tphuang
I feel like Delta getting free high speed WiFi is one of those things where I will believe when it's actually available. they made that claim a couple of years ago and still no progress. With JetBlue, you know it's the fastest out there.
As for Ife, it's getting a huge upgrade with a320 phase 2 reconfig. All the newly delivered a220 and a321neo will have the new Ife also. And if you fly to NYC a lot, you are likely not to get the old e90 Ife. You can look up some of reports on a321neo. It's pretty impressive.
For me, the main reason to not fly JetBlue is their small network not working for most of my needs. In that sense, delta network is pretty sad to where I need to fly to also. hard for me to see how delta wins in economy class with less leg room, seat width and lack of free WiFi and satellite TV.
Glad to hear JetBlue is doing an IFE upgrade. If Delta is upgrading their economy seats though that might tip it back to Delta for me. The WiFi not being free is a price issue but if the overall flight is within budget it could still be worth it. It sucks that we’ve lost the Gogo benefit on the Amex Plat though.