Hall of Rants: Whats the Most Random and Pathetic Thing You Can Complain About?
Jan 5, 2022, 8:14 pm
#3106
Join Date: Dec 2011
Programs: DL DM PM
Posts: 2,033
Jan 5, 2022, 10:19 pm
#3107
Original Member and FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Kansas City, MO, USA
Programs: DL PM/MM, AA ExPlat, Hyatt Glob, HH Dia, National ECE, Hertz PC
Posts: 16,579
Jan 7, 2022, 3:35 pm
#3108
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 563
I'm sorry if this has already been complained about, but every Sky Club I've ever been in has a little black plastic square / drip-catcher under the water and iced tea dispensers that raises the standard Sky Club glassware just high enough that it can't be slid directly in or out from the spout of the dispenser without tilting the glass, thus ensuring that I have to either (i) underfill the glass by the proper amount to allow for such tilting, (ii) spill liquid into the black plastic square (perhaps an ingenious maneuver by the plastic drip-catchers' union or (iii) remove the plastic drip-catcher, fill my glass, and (ideally) replace the drip-catcher fast enough to avoid any drippage while I'm sliding.
During the depths of Covid, this became the problem of the person serving me iced tea but they avoided it by using plastic cups. Now that I'm allowed to dispense my own beverages, it's back.
During the depths of Covid, this became the problem of the person serving me iced tea but they avoided it by using plastic cups. Now that I'm allowed to dispense my own beverages, it's back.
Jan 7, 2022, 5:55 pm
#3109
Join Date: Jan 2022
Programs: DL, UA, AA
Posts: 1,996
Jan 9, 2022, 4:59 am
#3110
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: LGA
Programs: DL DM, UA Gold, Marriott Plat Prem., Hilton Gold, National Exec Elite.
Posts: 2,533
Super annoyed!!! Did a same day change on a Transcon today from SEA flight to LAX flight (and I hate direct flights) so a couple could clear together into Delta One ; and they no showed/cancelled after I swapped!!!! Argh!!! The nerve of these people ! 
And this all happened in the past 45 min!!
And this all happened in the past 45 min!!
Jan 9, 2022, 8:12 pm
#3111
Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: London/JAX
Programs: DL PM, BA Gold, UA Silver, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Gold, Radisson Premium, Global Entry, CLEAR
Posts: 872
Just like another person’s terrible, heart wrenching SkyClub experience regarding the mac and cheese, I am also suffering so hard from the fact that the mac and cheese at the ATL B SkyClub is indeed penne as well. I don’t know how I will ever overcome such terrible mistreatment, the horror!
Jan 10, 2022, 7:11 am
#3114
Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 3,097
usually because those planes witht the D1 seats are being positioned for more profitable routes than the one you're on. it's not like they're sitting idle while you're on your particular redeye.
Jan 10, 2022, 10:14 am
#3115
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SEA (the REAL Washington); occasionally in the other Washington (DCA area)
Programs: DL PM 1.57MM; AS MVPG 100K
Posts: 21,371
c'mon, enough with buzzkill ... this *IS* the Hall of Rants, where we don't need serious answers
Jan 10, 2022, 3:55 pm
#3117
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: SNA
Posts: 928
Just like another person’s terrible, heart wrenching SkyClub experience regarding the mac and cheese, I am also suffering so hard from the fact that the mac and cheese at the ATL B SkyClub is indeed penne as well. I don’t know how I will ever overcome such terrible mistreatment, the horror!
Jan 10, 2022, 5:45 pm
#3118
Moderator: Hyatt; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: WAS
Programs: :rolleyes:, DL DM, Mlife Plat, Caesars Diam, Marriott Tit, UA Gold, Hyatt Glob, invol FT beta tester
Posts: 18,925
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DL rant: booked 3x pax recently, and post booking the computer had put me and mom (GM) in non-adjacent preferred seats and a 2nd non-status companion 5-10 rows behind us on each segment of the trip. Even though the 3rd non-status pax made the reservation ineligible for comp upgrades, we should have been able to get 3 preferred seats (and the Y cabins were mostly empty)
Didn't really care because I then immediately called to clear into available OY space, but srsly w.t.f.DLIT... I've never booked 3+ before, but have booked 2 pax many times and have always been seated together.
DL rant: booked 3x pax recently, and post booking the computer had put me and mom (GM) in non-adjacent preferred seats and a 2nd non-status companion 5-10 rows behind us on each segment of the trip. Even though the 3rd non-status pax made the reservation ineligible for comp upgrades, we should have been able to get 3 preferred seats (and the Y cabins were mostly empty)
Didn't really care because I then immediately called to clear into available OY space, but srsly w.t.f.DLIT... I've never booked 3+ before, but have booked 2 pax many times and have always been seated together.
Jan 10, 2022, 8:42 pm
#3119
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: VPS
Programs: IHG Diamond, Delta PM, Hilton Gold, Accor Gold, Marriott Silver
Posts: 7,265
The last few award tickets I've booked for the perfesser and me, the system has auto-assigned me to a preferred seat and my non-status +1 to a non-preferred seat. It let my PM self pick C+ seats just fine for both of us after that but I wonder if they're putting the IT process in place for some sort of future 'enhancement'.
Jan 10, 2022, 10:04 pm
#3120
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SEA (the REAL Washington); occasionally in the other Washington (DCA area)
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Posts: 21,371
had that exact scenario last month when I was booking with the AmEx companion ticket … skipped seat selection in anticipation of C+ upgrades within a few minutes, and was not thrilled with the defaults :/
UGs came through on three of four segments as expected; the fourth was ~24 hrs later
I’m equally cynical …
UGs came through on three of four segments as expected; the fourth was ~24 hrs later
I’m equally cynical …