JFK-west coast paid F/full fare Y SkyClub access gone?
Feb 8, 2016, 8:24 pm
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JFK-west coast paid F/full fare Y SkyClub access gone?
DL has always offered JFK-SAN/PDX/SEA/LAS (I think?) and DEN "transcons" (DEN not being a transcon in the true sense of a transcontinental market, but whatever) SkyClub access with paid F or full Y fares. However, looking at the DL website, this seems to have disappeared 
Am I missing something?
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Am I missing something? Thanks!
Feb 8, 2016, 8:31 pm
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DL has always offered JFK-SAN/PDX/SEA/LAS (I think?) and DEN "transcons" (DEN not being a transcon in the true sense of a transcontinental market, but whatever) SkyClub access with paid F or full Y fares. However, looking at the DL website, this seems to have disappeared Am I missing something?
Thanks!
Am I missing something? Thanks!
Feb 8, 2016, 8:37 pm
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DL has always offered JFK-SAN/PDX/SEA/LAS (I think?) and DEN "transcons" (DEN not being a transcon in the true sense of a transcontinental market, but whatever) SkyClub access with paid F or full Y fares. However, looking at the DL website, this seems to have disappeared Am I missing something?
Thanks!
Am I missing something? Thanks!
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...screpancy.html
Feb 8, 2016, 8:37 pm
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DL has always offered JFK-SAN/PDX/SEA/LAS (I think?) and DEN "transcons" (DEN not being a transcon in the true sense of a transcontinental market, but whatever) SkyClub access with paid F or full Y fares. However, looking at the DL website, this seems to have disappeared Am I missing something?
Thanks!
Am I missing something? Thanks!
Feb 8, 2016, 8:39 pm
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Delta's website seems to indicate it's still available.
Feb 9, 2016, 6:53 am
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Looks like JFK-SEA/PDX/PHX/DEN/SAN paid F and full Y lounge access has been discontinued, then? Kind of sad, but wasn't surprised, because those specific flights getting lounge access seemed kind of like a holdover from the old days. And, is JFK-DEN a transcon? Not even close, IMHO. SLC wasn't even included, even though it's closer to the west coast than DEN is.
Those are the old rules, apparently discontinued?
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/attac...p;d=1454510382
Those are the old rules, apparently discontinued?
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/attac...p;d=1454510382
Feb 9, 2016, 7:38 am
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I don't think that's accurate. Actually having a place to sit in the Sky Club certainly makes me a happy customer. Club overcrowding at peak travel hours is a big issue. I understand that they have to offer club access on the premium routes (JFK-LAX/SFO), to stay competitive, but I'm glad that they limit it to just those routes.
Feb 9, 2016, 8:09 am
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I don't think that's accurate. Actually having a place to sit in the Sky Club certainly makes me a happy customer. Club overcrowding at peak travel hours is a big issue. I understand that they have to offer club access on the premium routes (JFK-LAX/SFO), to stay competitive, but I'm glad that they limit it to just those routes.
Feb 9, 2016, 8:10 am
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Feb 9, 2016, 9:15 am
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True. I've never been able to enjoy the Skyclub because of the nagging fear that somebody in there might not belong. What's important to me isn't the quality of my own experience; it's knowing that other people are being kept out.
Feb 9, 2016, 9:21 am
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Plus, it's not as if the flights for which SC access has been discontinued are necessarily more expensive than many other routes that have never had lounge privileges......nor, more importantly, are DL's main competitors offering free lounge access on such routes.
Feb 9, 2016, 10:17 am
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Feb 9, 2016, 3:14 pm
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Feb 9, 2016, 3:24 pm
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I once tried to get them to chase away a lady who was standing near the Skyclub entrance eating pineapple chunks. I told the Skyclub agent that being so bluntly reminded that anybody could bring any kind of fruit they liked into the airport diminished my experience of eating carrot sticks in the Skyclub. The agent told me they couldn't control what other people did in non-Skyclub space.