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New Delta website
new to the board, but from seeing past posters, and perusing the site, I expect to have a wealth of knowledge brought to me on this question. I just went to the Delta website today, to investigate a trip to Florida near the Christmas holiday. I wanted to fly MSP-RSW, but had felxitbility in both airports and days of travel. But with the new website, it is hard to add addtional airports, and ( for me anyway) searching flexible travel dates was non-existent? Has anyone else seen this? Or am I missing something on their page?
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https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...c67a083f56.jpg
Search for flight and on the next page you will find this. |
The new website is hot garbage. To switch back to the old one, change flight-search-2 in the URL to flight-search and hit Enter, at least for now.
Eventually, they'll force all of us onto the new design, but for now you still have the option to revert. |
Thanks Frogbone,
Yes I did get the additional airports, but I didn't know about the URL Change that BenA suggests. thanks guys |
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Originally Posted by BenA
(Post 31199369)
The new website is hot garbage. To switch back to the old one, change flight-search-2 in the URL to flight-search and hit Enter, at least for now.
Eventually, they'll force all of us onto the new design, but for now you still have the option to revert. There are some peeps on here that think the NWA website was the best ever. To me it looked like and functioned like it was designed by 5th graders... |
Originally Posted by HDQDD
(Post 31199481)
To each their own. I prefer the new design.
There are some peeps on here that think the NWA website was the best ever. To me it looked like and functioned like it was designed by 5th graders... |
They seem to have gotten rid of the full advanced search screen where you could search by fare class, etc. Anyone know where that is?
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Originally Posted by jdrtravel
(Post 31199567)
They seem to have gotten rid of the full advanced search screen where you could search by fare class, etc. Anyone know where that is?
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Thanks Carmen OM, never saw that box, and I though I went everywhere I could on each page.
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Originally Posted by HDQDD
(Post 31199481)
To each their own. I prefer the new design.
There are some peeps on here that think the NWA website was the best ever. To me it looked like and functioned like it was designed by 5th graders... Visually, the new design is appealing on first glance, but functionally it’s way behind the old version once you start trying to actually get work done. I think the nostalgia for the NWA site was more focused around how much you could accomplish online reliably without calling in. Particularly in the first few years post-merger, the switch to the Delta reservation system and website backend caused a lot of unreliability and removed some features. The award search engine was a particular regression. The visual design itself was very mid-2000s and nothing special for nwa.com, but the backend integration was ahead of Delta’s premerger web site by a mile. The gap has of course closed in the intervening decade, but I’m still amazed at how much I have to pick up a phone to get things accomplished with Delta compared to competing airlines like, say, Alaska. |
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Originally Posted by HDQDD
(Post 31199481)
There are some peeps on here that think the NWA website was the best ever.
Originally Posted by BenA
(Post 31199770)
Particularly in the first few years post-merger, the switch to the Delta reservation system and website backend caused a lot of unreliability and removed some features.
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Originally Posted by BenA
(Post 31199778)
To be clear, this is reverting back to the old site. The book-a-flight page for flight-search-2 unfortunately appears to have removed the fare class search feature... Right, is there a way to access that on the new site? I don't need it that often, but it's helpful for quickly searching for inventory when you need a specific fare class (like for Amex certs, or to check the cost of a higher coach fare class that you want to upgrade). |
Originally Posted by CarmenOM
(Post 31199421)
Originally Posted by Frogbone
(Post 31199366)
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...c67a083f56.jpg
Search for flight and on the next page you will find this. When booking cash flights, it's no problem as I just use ITA. But it's a pain when searching award flight options. |
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