Proposal for New Diamond Medallion benefit: Skip the Skyclub line?
Jun 15, 2022, 6:58 am
#154
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Washington, DC
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You are free to start your own airline or lounge and make your own rules. Or to spend more on tickets. I don't see any Diamonds bragging here, though.
Imagine thinking every time you dislike a new policy you are entitled to make your own, to the detriment of other passengers.
Imagine thinking every time you dislike a new policy you are entitled to make your own, to the detriment of other passengers.
Jun 15, 2022, 7:08 am
#155
Join Date: Jan 2022
Programs: DL, UA, AA
Posts: 1,996
Granting priority access and benefits for higher status customers isn't "cutting in line". It's the business model and premise of the frequent flyer programs many folks here participate in.
And some of the folks encouraging this will be the first to complain when someone else gets their upgrade or sits in their seat.
And some of the folks encouraging this will be the first to complain when someone else gets their upgrade or sits in their seat.
Jun 15, 2022, 7:57 am
#156
Join Date: May 2011
Location: NYC (LGA, JFK), CT
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Kind of related - was checking in to the JFK Centurion Lounge yesterday and approached the “Centurion Members” check in person as she waved me up to check in. Guy behind me wanted to check in too and said “Hey - I’m Centurion, don’t know what he is.” I looked back, gave him a stern look, and proceeded to check in before him (I have a lowly Amex Plat / Delta Reserve)
Jun 15, 2022, 8:09 am
#157
Join Date: Jan 2022
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Kind of related - was checking in to the JFK Centurion Lounge yesterday and approached the “Centurion Members” check in person as she waved me up to check in. Guy behind me wanted to check in too and said “Hey - I’m Centurion, don’t know what he is.” I looked back, gave him a stern look, and proceeded to check in before him (I have a lowly Amex Plat / Delta Reserve)
That can work against you, too. I was just getting to the SkyPriority check in last week, and someone from the "regular" line got waved into the priority check in just ahead of me. People also sometimes give me a funny look when I get ahead of them via the TSA Precheck line. But these situations are different, in my opinion, from getting in the priority line when you don't qualify.
Do we really want everyone ignoring lines? This impresses me as something people feel somehow justified in doing, even as they will get upset about if someone else does it in a situation where they qualify for priority.
Jun 15, 2022, 8:18 am
#158
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Minneapolis
Programs: AA EXP, Hyatt Diamond, SPG Gold, GlobalEntry, Admirals Club, United Club
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With what staff would this be accomplished? Having flex space requires flex staff. That's nearly impossible especially when everyone wants to eat, drink, and forget how to use a trash can or return a glass to the bar (let alone tip!). It's 6 AM in Atlanta and the club on T is jampacked with empty plates and glasses on at least a third of the tables.
For glasses, I don't return them to the bar. 1 - because I don't want to try to make my way through the crowd of people to awkwardly put a used glass right in front of someone who is standing there waiting for a drink and 2 - I'm not even sure Delta wants its customers doing that. When it's busy (which is the only real time "helping out" like this would actually be beneficial in terms of time) I don't think Delta (or other customers or the bartenders) want bartenders to be spending time removing dirty glasses from the bar.
Jun 15, 2022, 8:23 am
#159
Join Date: May 2011
Location: NYC (LGA, JFK), CT
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That can work against you, too. I was just getting to the SkyPriority check in last week, and someone from the "regular" line got waved into the priority check in just ahead of me. People also sometimes give me a funny look when I get ahead of them via the TSA Precheck line. But these situations are different, in my opinion, from getting in the priority line when you don't qualify.
Do we really want everyone ignoring lines? This impresses me as something people feel somehow justified in doing, even as they will get upset about if someone else does it in a situation where they qualify for priority.
Do we really want everyone ignoring lines? This impresses me as something people feel somehow justified in doing, even as they will get upset about if someone else does it in a situation where they qualify for priority.
Jun 15, 2022, 9:30 am
#161
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Location: Toledo, OH
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How are they cutting the line if there is a separate line for diamonds/d1/360? If there are people ahead of them in that line and they wlak in front of them, that would be cutting the line. If they are allowing a diamond in before a gold that isn't cutting the line if they are in the proper queue.
I'm sure the GM that cut the line wouldn't appreciate it as a Gold if a silver ignore the boarding announcement for skypriority and just boarded with Skypriority instead of his zone.
I'm sure the GM that cut the line wouldn't appreciate it as a Gold if a silver ignore the boarding announcement for skypriority and just boarded with Skypriority instead of his zone.
Jun 15, 2022, 10:25 am
#162
Join Date: Mar 2021
Programs: Marriott Ambassador - Delta Diamond - United Silver - Frontier 100k - Sixt Plat
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😴😴😴A simple post triggered so many DL fangirls above in this thread.
DL SC policy has no lanugage of allowing DMs/d360s/d1s before the rest of the SM members who can access through other methods such as the plat card. Send me a link from the DL site to prove me wrong.
Line skipping will continue. GL enforcing something that isn't official.
DL SC policy has no lanugage of allowing DMs/d360s/d1s before the rest of the SM members who can access through other methods such as the plat card. Send me a link from the DL site to prove me wrong.
Line skipping will continue. GL enforcing something that isn't official.
Jun 15, 2022, 10:29 am
#163
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Why are they only doing this at ATL? They need to make this a systemwide benefit. Would help to make up a little bit for all the cutbacks Diamonds have suffered over the past year
Jun 15, 2022, 10:42 am
#164
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Washington, DC
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The policy does state that your access can be revoked for any reason, so if you do it enough times and get caught by an agent if they feel up to it they'll report club abuse. I can't believe entrances don't have agents in-front of the scan booths otherwise people can just enter and not scan lol. at LGA's new club there were 3 agents at the door for the 3 scanners.
Jun 15, 2022, 11:38 am
#165
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I hope Delta does ban folks who intentionally cut the line repeatedly with no other reason than they think they are better than everyone else who waits on lines. Putting the disrespect and contempt it shows for other travelers, I'd be concerned these people would also push their way to the front of a line of an emergency evacuation and brag about it too.