Unfortunately, Delta has done a tons of media marketing to hype up the events.

What they did can go both ways in terms of risks and rrewards. If both flights are widely successful, everyone is happy and they reap a gigantic rewards (media, fianncially, etc). But the risks of going south is otherwise.

But they decided not be low key for its solar eclipse flight - very much unlike to Southwest, Alaska, United, Jetblue are doing for thier solar eclipse flights. And on top, Delta charge multiple x price premium for its solar eclipse flight along with its marketign hype, I think it is reasonable that it induced the increased anticipation and expectation.

let's see what Delta would response to simonwc after they read through Eclipse2026's finding. I really hope that they can explain the behind the scene of what had happened so we can better understand their side instead of just blindly defending them.