Downgrade from domestic F due to rotten stench.
Mar 22, 2024, 4:16 pm
#17
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It was very localized lol. I don't really know. 4A was definitely the worst by a lot. 4B (me) was bad. By the aisle, there was no smell. I think nobody would accept the stink level in 4A. There may be a madman out there that would have accepted 4Bs stink level but if guess 90% or more would not. And to be clear all delta staff completely agreed. It was nasty.
Mar 22, 2024, 4:18 pm
#18
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It was very localized lol. I don't really know. 4A was definitely the worst by a lot. 4B (me) was bad. By the aisle, there was no smell. I think nobody would accept the stink level in 4A. There may be a madman out there that would have accepted 4Bs stink level but if guess 90% or more would not. And to be clear all delta staff completely agreed. It was nasty.
Mar 23, 2024, 2:28 am
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I don't know why Delta couldn't clean it properly. I was on a JetBlue flight once where someone was sick and vomited three rows ahead of me. They offloaded the pax and sent in cleaners with a carpet cleaning machine and three different chemicals. By the time they were done, not only was there no smell, the stain (really just a wet spot left at that point) was almost unnoticable, and was completely dry and gone by mid-flight.
Mar 23, 2024, 9:03 am
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I just got off the phone with Delta. I was given the fare difference plus $200 as others have said. Kind of a bummer since the last time I was downgraded on UA, it was an award flight and they gave me $1,000 for DEN-ORD plus a portion of the miles I used for the J DEN-ORD-Europe flight. But on that particular occasion, it was the gate agent who gave us $1k (both my wife and I each) and that was because they didn't get any volunteers to take a downgrade so have gave us the max offer and made us take it. That was a simple metal swap too... not vomit related.
One oddity was that I have no faith it will actually work. The first person I talked to said they were brand new and they were not able to give me a voucher for $200 so the transferred me and I immediately got dropped. The guy called me back and transferred me again, this time I go someone that gave me the voucher after undoing everything he had done but she wasn't able to really pin down was the fare difference would actually be. Oh well.
One oddity was that I have no faith it will actually work. The first person I talked to said they were brand new and they were not able to give me a voucher for $200 so the transferred me and I immediately got dropped. The guy called me back and transferred me again, this time I go someone that gave me the voucher after undoing everything he had done but she wasn't able to really pin down was the fare difference would actually be. Oh well.
Mar 24, 2024, 2:12 am
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You're right. In the end, it wasn't that serious. I lived and I made it to my hotel. Oh well.
Mar 25, 2024, 4:51 am
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lol true. Funny story though. I just got off SIN-MNL on SQ and the J seat wouldn't recline. They tried reseting it to no avail. They moved me directly across the aisle and I used that seat for the last 2 hours instead. Purser came to me apologizing and offered 150 SGD as a voucher. I was not expecting anything since it literally didn't bother me at all. She asked if I would fly with SQ in the next year. I said probably not so instead she let me pick out anything from the duty free menu instead lol. Just an interesting difference in service culture between airlines. In my opinion, I wasn't even due anything since it wasn't like I was in any way inconvenienced.
Mar 25, 2024, 10:46 am
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lol true. Funny story though. I just got off SIN-MNL on SQ and the J seat wouldn't recline. They tried reseting it to no avail. They moved me directly across the aisle and I used that seat for the last 2 hours instead. Purser came to me apologizing and offered 150 SGD as a voucher. I was not expecting anything since it literally didn't bother me at all. She asked if I would fly with SQ in the next year. I said probably not so instead she let me pick out anything from the duty free menu instead lol. Just an interesting difference in service culture between airlines. In my opinion, I wasn't even due anything since it wasn't like I was in any way inconvenienced.
Mar 25, 2024, 6:48 pm
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(I don't think this varies that much between Airbus and Boeing.)