Originally Posted by
hhdl
Very quietly, they removed the BE exclusion from the verbiage for non-DL STE+ but kept a general exclusion (I don't specifically recall whether life membership's exemption from BE prohibition is explicitly called out). So I've been curious since then (not that this FB Platinum buys BE to test) which rule holds. It would be good to know if this was a kiosk giving access or if a BP was shown (I'd be more confident in the kiosk being coded with the exception than I'd be in a dragon not just immediately denying based on BE).
I'm pretty sure they have reached an agreement with skyteam that delta will only abuse its own elites and not the skyteam elite plus members from other airlines. in every other case when they've restricted skyteam elite plus benefits they've only applied that restriction to their own program members.