Last year Delta changed from the credit card processors they were using to the Lumia 820 Windows Phone devices for credit card processing and other features onboard. Now Market Watch reports: Delta Air Lines DAL -0.32% this fall will equip more than 20,000 flight attendants with handheld Nokia Lumia 1520 phablets, which will serve as…
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Delta and cancelled flights
A couple days ago the Wall Street Journal published an article by Scott McCartney about how Delta has the lowest cancellation rate in the industry. Last year, Delta canceled just 0.3% of its flights, according to flight-tracking service FlightStats.com. That was twice as good as the next-best airlines, Southwest and Alaska, and five times better…
Weekly Recap: October 7
So…I’m finally getting back into the swing of things after vacation, which means back on the road. Monday: Office day to catch up after vacation. Tuesday: Flew CLT-ATL-CMH on Delta and stayed at the Hampton Inn near the airport. It was undergoing a facelift and since I had been there last time they had added…
Delta shows MQD, Hilton bonus miles for iPhone app
As reported on Flyertalk and a couple of the other BA blogs Delta is now beginning to display MQDs on the website. Now it should be noted that MQD will not be used as a requirement for status until next year so although you can see it this year it won’t affect your 2014 status. …
Weekly Recap: August 19/26
In my excitement for traveling for fun instead of work I never scheduled my post for last week so here’s a double-up August 19th: an unintentional segment run week. Monday: I flew CLT-DTW-AZO. I was working hard on the Marriott Megabonus so I stayed at the Fairfield Inn while my coworker stayed at the FourPoints…
Delta Point’s Fireside Chats
On Sundays Rene at DeltaPoints has started a new series interviewing the many bloggers of BoardingArea.com. He started last week with Randy Petersen and this week it was my turn. If you want to know more about us I highly recommend checking it out. There is a lot more to our stories than just hawking…
New use for Windows Phones: Delta BoB
http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/08/22/nokia-lumia-820-flying-high-with-delta-airlines/ Interesting. I’d debating about whether to upgrade phones or not and the Windows phones seem interesting, but not on my list. Whether it is a way to suck up to Microsoft to build SEA or whether Dynamics is really running a better product than the previous product is not something that I am…
Delta increases mileage levels for BusinessElite
Posted on FT by DwaneSkyMiles Today we will make updates to delta.com in two content areas that you’ll be interested in, so we’re posting here as a heads up. BusinessElite® low mileage redemption: Many of you have experienced first hand our significant investments in products over the past several years. In June 2014, we will…
Weekly Recap: August 5
As I mentioned already, I’ve been fighting a pretty bad cough. Not really any other symptoms except sleeping a lot and aside from the cough my mental capacity is fine. I had a big meeting last week that I couldn’t postpone so I had to show up and trudge through it or wind up postponing…
Weekly Recap: July 8 and July 15
Doing a two-fer to get back on schedule. If I’m erratic in posting this it’s because I’m burnt out and don’t really want to talk about travel. July 8 – Worst travel week of the year for me! Monday: I was *supposed* to go CLT-ATL-ATW (upgraded for both segments). I was leaving late in the…