Originally Posted by GUWonder
FWIW or not worth, Delta's service (not necessarily product) on long-haul is generally better than that of most other US carriers. And I've had less attitude and trouble from DL than from a number of US and other European carriers.
I was thinking once US has a chance to downgrade DL's service it will be mission accomplished - they just have to change Smile to Snarl in the DL FA training manuals and they'll be off and running. Step two will be expansion of the current (? as of my last US flight in June) check-in process:
Separate check-in areas:
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