Yikes! I have four Delta BE tickets one way, and hope that we don't get that kind of treatment. If I could, I would switch to another carrier, but I can't find any award availability on other airlines.

Can anyone share how they were able to get AF first class seats? I have had no success on nwa.com, even looking for one seat for a wide variety of dates way into the future.

Also, thanks to everyone for their input. Quite interesting.