Funny Delta.com Flight Option
 

Talk about a layover!!!!:D

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6:40am

ATL

6:05pm
Mon 28 Mar

MSP

1 stop83h 25m

MSP77h 51m Layover
YYC Change Airports

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6:40 AM departure and 78 hour layover.

Had it been an award ticket, I would not have been surprised. :D:rolleyes:

Just checked another weekend in April and got them same crazy flight option. Perhaps this is Delta's new strategy for the lowest fare option. Flight actually arrives after my return flight would depart.

After looking closer they are offering me a flight from ATL-MSP, YYC-MSP. Guess I have to drive from MSP to YYC and MSP to ATL.....

I'm sure glad they are fixing the web site problems.....

You have to be careful, especially if you check the box to include other airports. I thought it would at least pair them up for RT travel. I almost booked msp-psp and phx-msp. Initially thought I was just having a connection in phx on the return. I do not believe many people would want to drive over four hours for the return flight.

Thanks for the options DL!

I once saw a NW routing from MSP-HNL that the computer auto loaded that went like this MSP-LAX-MSP-HNL there's extra few thousand miles for you.

How's this for an impossible itinerary? And no, this isn't photoshopped.

http://www.turbulenceforecast.com/impossible-delta.png

I've had a couple like this today when I tried to book a trips out of TPA to SFO today. It did something like DTW to TPA then DTW-SFO and had a bold CHANGE AIRPORT in red. I kept trying to figure out how I was going to get to DTW on the first leg then get from Tampa to DTW quick enough to make the 1 hour and 20 minute connection. Had something similar to it trying to book to BRU. I just wrote it off to more Delta.com problems...

I've had some occasional NEGATIVE layovers offered to me, but the craziest was recently something like -99hrs 51 min!!! If I knew how you guyz take screenshots and post them here, I would have!

WOW...they got you good.

Was looking at an LAX-NYC flight for October:

Not only do I not get to NYC, I have 99 hours to get from SLC to CVG ...

http://i.imgur.com/RiROQ.png for the screenshot.

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Months later, this is still happening. I see multi-day and negative connections from time to time. No faith in DL IT. Should be the laughing stock of the IT world and hang their heads in shame.

Try booking a flight from the east coast to Asia... the pathetically broken booking engine regularly tries to force an overnight (or longer) layover at ATL, MSP or DTW.

This one at least has an explanation (most of the time). If there's a cheaper fare that requires, say, Monday travel over the water and you asked for a Sunday departure, they'll route you to the international gateway on Sunday, give you a layover of just under 24 hours, and then put you out on the Monday flight. Unfortunately, I don't think this often saves more than $25, so it's not really a helpful way for DL.dumb to present things.

This has been going on for quite a while, and if these "long layovers" were just under 24 hours, I could deal with it and accept this as (somewhat) logic reasoning. But, when you have layovers in the 70 - 80 hour range.. I question their coding and testing ability.. I do TPA to LON regularly and you should see some of the routing and timings that I have been offered... I would think that Delta's management would actually be embarrassed by some of the bloopers that their IT comes up with...

I just saw one yesterday and shook my head..

Original Routing - TPA - LON (Gatwick or Heathrow, I didn't care)
What Delta Offered

MIA - ATL with a layover of 8 hours
TPA - MIA with a 68 hour layover
MIA - LHR

I just shook my head and said forget it... I wasn't driving to MIA - To fly to ATL - then driving from ATL to get on a plane in TPA to fly to MIA...

Maybe this is why the Crown Rooms are so crowded?

Yes, that's clearly a bug. What rylan was describing about US East Coast to Asia with 24-hour layovers is what I was addressing. I'd call that a bug, too, but one that I could see them trying to justify. 68-hour layovers and random surface segments are serious bugs.