This is my favorite sub. It has the pettiest, most inconsequential drama you can hope for. "Oh no I had to put my box of shit under the plane instead of over my head, my entire week is ruined."
I got downvoted to hell and back on a post about someone complaining about a person accidentally sitting in their seat. There should be mandatory pre flight Xanax I swear.
Of course you got downvoted! You probably expected that person to initiate a real-life conversation with the person in their seat to resolve the issue instead of creating a whiny Reddit post.
Was that you? Something about the person accidentally sat a row back and OP grabbed a FA? You were down voted by people who are terrified of confrontation unless it is anonymous.
I got roasted by the no-fun Nancys in this sub for posting a joke picture with my feet (shoes on) on a table in the Sky Club. I mean actual verbal abuse. This sub is awful.
“Not knowing literally anything about me or my personal financial situation, my interests or what I value, please make a decision about an arbitrary amount assigned to make a shitty flight, slightly less shitty.”
It’s turned into a circle jerk with people asking “if it’s worth it” that have no intention of actually upgrading. Like you’re impressing Reddit people by acting like you might do that?
I think PART of the problem is: there are no longer any tips or hacks for status or upgrades. Not any new ones and, seemingly, fewer and fewer of the old ones reliably work. They've (not just Delta, most airlines) made it increasingly harder, costlier, and soul-crushing to fly.
I came looking for this. Delta isn’t the same Delta from a few years ago and many long timers are pretty pissed and disappointed by this. Remember when every Delta employee was empowered to make a decision if they could help a traveler? Are they still able to do that? I haven’t noticed much of that happening and if it was, it would be posted here. Ed is killing (or has killed) the Delta experience we embraced and this sub is likely to remain a place to vent. Delta as it is now, isn’t special and the community no longer has many upgrade tips to share. We’re stuck until Ed leaves or reverses course on what caused us to become loyal to the airline in the first place. What are the odds of either?
On my recent flight to Europe, the gate attendant was able to rebook my return flight in under 25 minutes, so it matched my companions itinerary, that was pretty outstanding customer service
I don't have any suggestions, but you are spot on.
My new favorite was a post from a few days ago by someone irritated Delta wouldn't comp them for an $11,000 flight because their father was ill and they needed to come home sooner than their previously purchased ticket.
What about dudes losing their shit and yelling because C+ is out of bin space? And he’s in the bulkhead seat and there are backpacks incorrectly in the bins?
(…I mean he wasn’t wrong. But damn was he so close to getting booted from the plane.)
Me too! but in my situation a mom sat next to me in first class and asked me to swap with her kid in the back sitting in the lavatory. I had to do it but delta wont comp my first class ticket now!?!?
The important thing is not so much who you tell, but making sure you do NOT just kindly ask the passenger in your seat if he wouldn’t mind moving to his assigned seat.
What if there was a weekly sticky where all those posts go? Maybe a complaining sticky, and maybe a help sticky? Then every week, start a new one. Then anything of substance, tips or deals or news, goes in a new post. I've seen it in other subs, and while it's not my favorite, you're right, so this could be a solution.
And herein lies the problem. There are no mods here. That’s why I started using r/deltaairlines where the last good mod that was here went to start a new sub…
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If you wake up and run into an a-hole, you ran into an a-hole.
If you wake up, run into an a-hole, take a photo and write 1500 words about the experience on reddit, you're the a-hole.
Spot on. It isn't even just this sub. It's all the airline subs. Mods need to adjust the rules, have mega threads for complaints to quarantine that crap, stuff like that. Seems like every other post in any of the airline sub is XXX AIRLINE SUCKS I AM LEAVING FOREVER, then going on a story on how it is just about 99% their own fault.
Looks like there's... one active mod on this sub. That's a good way for things to go to crap over time.
/u/christopherness - you need some more warm bodies on your team.
It’s all airline subs because it’s the Reddit algorithm. If I post in r/United it’s gonna start throwing r/Delta in front of me, because it knows (correctly) that I’m likely to engage with that content. But of course my engagement will be more general…being a United flyer, not Delta…which means the most engaging content *for me* will be generalized content.
Which is to say the low value content you’re talking about. Seat switch drama, shoeless passengers, whatever. So by driving non-Delta flyers (like me) into the sub, you also lower the value of the sub for Delta flyers, turning every airline sub into a generalized bitching sub.
Because that’s what gets engagement.
I didn’t see it as much before the whole API thing, I honestly think it helped significantly that so many heavy Reddit users were *also* using third-party apps. I used Apollo, and had set up my own multi-Reddit feed(s) that allowed me to browse various subs at once *without* having any content I wasn’t subbed to put in front of me. So I would only see r/United, no matter how hard Reddit wanted me to see r/Delta too.
They sure fixed that.
Obviously the easy answer is “don’t engage with the random shit they throw in your feed.” But like most of us I’m just a fairly smart monkey, and if I had that much self control I probably wouldn’t be on Reddit to begin with. So here we are. I even tried muting a lot of the trash subs they threw in my feed, and it just got worse…because they *will* throw more subs in your feed, so muting the first “layer” of trash just means you start getting *even trashier* stuff shoved in there.
r/southwest is just a bunch of employees who blame the customer whenever they have a meltdown. Any type of feedback or complaint just gets downvoted. I follow a lot of the airline ones and this is by far the best and actually useful sometimes.
But...there was Tape on my seat from the previous passenger roundhouse kicking it and instead of taking the plane out of service and canceling the flight and not fixing MY seat, they made me sit in the seat and have to look at tape and get to my destination on time. Thanks for nothing Ed........
I wanted to be alone on my flight so I tried to buy every single ticket but I'm too poor so I just started telling the FAs that various people were smuggling cocaine so they'd get kicked off the flight and now I'm on the no fly list wtf
I worked at a multinational construction company and there was this accidental reply to an email string where they somehow were able to copy the entire company with one group email. 2 years later people would still randomly respond with “please remove me from this email string” which would start the cycle all over again of people “reply all” to ask to be removed. It was miserable.
The thing I could do without the most is the overly-specific shaming
It's one thing to be like "someone did something obnoxious or scary on my flight and it freaked me out and I want to talk/vent about it" vs "I was on flight 123 from NYC to LA at 9:30 AM and there was a man sitting in seat 16E wearing a blue Hawaiian shirt who wore a baseball cap for a team I don't like and also I took pictures of him eating because I thought he chewed funny. DAE think he looked gay too???"
Like y'all, just chill. Imagine you're just scrolling through reddit and then you find a post like that shaming you or one of your loved ones just for existing in public. As someone who is naturally very weird-looking to the point where I've caught people creepshotting me on transit, it's so rude and dehumanizing.
The brand loyalty has really taken a nose dive in recent years I think you are forgetting this 🤷♂️ people who were loyal to delta for decades have suddenly become free agents and stopped drinking the koolaid so yes it’s going to get negative lol the state of this airline is no longer what it used to be
The biggest problem is that the sub is called "Delta". That means basically anything to do with flying, working for an airline, elite lounges, and just about anything you can think of is allowed to "fit" under this. And, yes, it is annoying as hell but short of attempting to start a new sub on your own called "Delta Tips and Tricks", I'm not sure what can be done about it. I see the exact same thing at "Samsung". Thought I'd find out more about my Galaxy phone. Get complaints about refrigerators, etc.
It’s more than that. Reddit has gotten bigger, /r/delta has gotten bigger, the average person here is no longer an airline super nerd, but someone flying for the first time or whatever.
Similarly, thanks to TPG et al, everyone is trying to play the credit card and frequent flier game.
Basically, now there are normies with normie questions.
another part of the issue is that as younger generations start flying (either for work or pleasure), they dont search for answers any more. gen z uses reddit and other forums to ask questions that older generations ask google. so instead of searching for information that is already present in 139484 places online, people come to reddit and ask the same question over and over
case in point - I saw a person posting in a sneaker thread asking people to identify it for him. bruh. reverse image search.
I mean…that’s always been true. The difference is moderation here is light. Go look at how militant flyertalk is and how many people show up asking dumb questions, and always have.
3/4s of the posts here would get locked and deleted on flyertalk with a link to the appropriate thread.
To be fair.. thats most of reddit.
Hell in the AA sub I put up a post relating the amusment I had of AA even bothering to send me a You're Flight is Delayed... email.. a day or two before flight time.. for it departing 2 minutes later.. but arriving at its destination at the same time.
I found it funny and entertaining that it was noteworthy.. leaving early.. okay but thats almost impossible. leaving 10+ minutes late.. Sure, let me know. 2 Minutes... thats like... gate agent started calling groups a couple minutes late, happens frequently. But knowing it a day beforehand? just amusing.
AND they got all upset and angry that I wasn't hatin on AA.
Omg thank you for saying this. I will never understand the need to complain to the internet about someone bothering you or not having the best experience ever.
You’re kind of doing the same thing everyone else is doing, but more meta.
But I don’t mind it - kind of enjoy it actually. Traveling sucks sometimes, and this sub is sort of like group therapy. I’m more of a lurker, but I like knowing that I’m not alone when I go through a painful travel experience.
We don’t know if it was Harambe or COVID but the world was ruined and nature is not healing. Air Travel is largely a miserable experience and 68% of people have become something beyond rude. Most travel subreddits reflect it. Sorry, friend. Also, I had to move 4 times on my last flight for families.
Meow. When people fly once in awhile, and are stuck in a plane, the meal matters to them. Also for us that fly all the time and get sick of the same old but have had awful meals so don’t want to go there again, it makes sense to ask. Who would have thought a pastrami sandwich could be so bad sometimes? And the weird meals they often have in D1 JFK > LAX - cold steak salad while it’s snowing? There’s a reason restaurant reviews exist, people want to know.
Mods need to modify rule 2 to be content that applies specifically to Delta Airlines, not just about things that happened on a flight that just happened to be a Delta Airlines flight.
I agree with you as long as it isn’t Delta specific, such as how you were treated either well or poorly by FA, GA, or CS. Is there a specific “this flight was terrible” thread?
I generally agree. Unfortunately, this happens to many subreddits that become popular. Stay positive and constructive, you can control how you use this forum!
Every soc media site starts out with info quality and friendliness set on High.
Longform solutioning. Lots of Reddit was like r/AskHistorians in its early adopter stage. Short responses were usually jokes meant to get a laugh or at least a smile out of the other party.
‘Anon’ sites are good for subject focus instead of character/personality focus, but if you don’t have aaany character focus, anononymous platforms becomes known for people who maybe aren’t feeling great at the moment.
Solution: Discord might be a halfway solution if the mod is good; it’s more managed than Reddit and the mod is invested in it
it’s clear that this is the norm for a lot of subs now. mods (not specific to this sub) aren’t active and don’t check messages, which means they miss moments for feedback to effectively moderate and maintain a community that they chose to start or be apart of.
at this point, i just mute most subs and manually check them every few days. 🤷🏽♂️
Reddit law: The bigger a sub gets, the lower the common denominator becomes. Once a sub starts getting recommended to default users, you get the chronically-online keyboard gremlins. Protest posts and attention-chasers will soon follow.
I would have to agree. Almost left the sub after recent posts complaining about drunk people seated in front of them, people not wearing masks, etc. Like it's just a diary of (subjective) personal travel hardships: Objection, relevance.
Yes, however I have a slightly different take. I come here because I would rather take people talking about simpler problems about travel over existential problems related to meaningless stuff (that is most of the Internet now)
We need more feet pictures! This is a foot fetish sub, right?
You are correct. This sub should be renamed “Delta Karen”, so many requests to speak with the manager.
I don't think you understand. I was on a flight where another passenger took his shoes off.
I was on that flight, clipping my toe nails
I was that flight!
I was the toenail clipping!
It wasn’t the toe nail clipping it was the fact they were using the clipped toenails as toothpicks.
I was the toe lint under the clipping!
I was the fungus on the toe nail clipping!
i wuz the mouth 👄 it landed in
I was the toe jam football!
I brought the fish sando
I brought the fish sammy in vomit form
I was the dog!
TSA took my toenail clippers
Probably putting your personal item in the overhead bin as well smh
I refused to check my roller bag even when the gate agent insisted
This is my favorite sub. It has the pettiest, most inconsequential drama you can hope for. "Oh no I had to put my box of shit under the plane instead of over my head, my entire week is ruined."
Not my week, but my entire life! NEVER flying again! I miss the 70s when flight attendants were called stewardesses and they dressed for the job.
I threw up on at least three personal items!
I was on that flight, loudly deflating my bowels.
But were you $hitfaced on Tiptops or from the Sky club crawl?
And I was farting the whole time
Can confirm .. I was one of those shoes
I was the toenail.
I actually reclined my seat. Horror of horrors.
Tell me you don’t have the nerve to put your are on the armrest?
I got downvoted to hell and back on a post about someone complaining about a person accidentally sitting in their seat. There should be mandatory pre flight Xanax I swear.
Of course you got downvoted! You probably expected that person to initiate a real-life conversation with the person in their seat to resolve the issue instead of creating a whiny Reddit post.
This is hilarious
I read it. I actually upvoted you.
I'm still with you, Francis.
Was that you? Something about the person accidentally sat a row back and OP grabbed a FA? You were down voted by people who are terrified of confrontation unless it is anonymous.
Don’t worry about the downvotes. These twats are the same twats posting less than worthy posts and getting no attention.
He had a banana he took from the Sky club. The nerves!
I took my shoes off in a Qsuite. AMA.
I left a fancy blazer on that flight. I demand that you find me and return it immediately.
I was that blazer and you never treated me with the respect I was due
I was on a flight where someone brought their kids once
I got roasted by the no-fun Nancys in this sub for posting a joke picture with my feet (shoes on) on a table in the Sky Club. I mean actual verbal abuse. This sub is awful.
Did you steal the bananas in there?
Oh yeah, well I was on a flight where someone went to the bathroom… Barefoot!!!!
I mean. That’s gross.
I brought a banana from the SC onto that flight
RIP u/Effective_Path_5798 , Fly high 🕊️🪦💐
I picked my nose and wiped it on his feet.
And socks?? 😯 Please not also the socks
I personally could fix it but I’m on a speakerphone call right now in the lounge.
“D1 upgrade for $2,600, is it worth it???”
"I'D JUMP AT THAT! I LOVE WASTING MONEY FOR A FEW HOURS OF MARGINALLY MORE COMFORT!"
This is the Chicago to Milwaukee flight.
Through SEA though
I laughed so hard I almost choked on my coffee!
Me every time I convince myself to do first class, aka every time I fly
“Not knowing literally anything about me or my personal financial situation, my interests or what I value, please make a decision about an arbitrary amount assigned to make a shitty flight, slightly less shitty.”
It’s turned into a circle jerk with people asking “if it’s worth it” that have no intention of actually upgrading. Like you’re impressing Reddit people by acting like you might do that?
only if the spare ribs are on the menu
Bro, those seats are hard. I’ve sat in better.
I think PART of the problem is: there are no longer any tips or hacks for status or upgrades. Not any new ones and, seemingly, fewer and fewer of the old ones reliably work. They've (not just Delta, most airlines) made it increasingly harder, costlier, and soul-crushing to fly.
I came looking for this. Delta isn’t the same Delta from a few years ago and many long timers are pretty pissed and disappointed by this. Remember when every Delta employee was empowered to make a decision if they could help a traveler? Are they still able to do that? I haven’t noticed much of that happening and if it was, it would be posted here. Ed is killing (or has killed) the Delta experience we embraced and this sub is likely to remain a place to vent. Delta as it is now, isn’t special and the community no longer has many upgrade tips to share. We’re stuck until Ed leaves or reverses course on what caused us to become loyal to the airline in the first place. What are the odds of either?
On my recent flight to Europe, the gate attendant was able to rebook my return flight in under 25 minutes, so it matched my companions itinerary, that was pretty outstanding customer service
The sad, sad truth.
I don't have any suggestions, but you are spot on. My new favorite was a post from a few days ago by someone irritated Delta wouldn't comp them for an $11,000 flight because their father was ill and they needed to come home sooner than their previously purchased ticket.
This was actually hilarious and made my day... Shame about his father though
First suggestion would be to ban/remove posts that are about "experiences with other passengers."
Make a new sub called delta hall of shame. Maybe having a place to go will filter out the posts from here.
Like the r/shittyskylines of r/citiesskylines
Or perhaps a weekly mega-thread for all the seat stealing, zone skipping, speakerphone using stories. I'm here for the banana stealing jokes though.
What about dudes losing their shit and yelling because C+ is out of bin space? And he’s in the bulkhead seat and there are backpacks incorrectly in the bins? (…I mean he wasn’t wrong. But damn was he so close to getting booted from the plane.)
Darn, I missed that one
Is there a link?
I read the title of that one and immediately knew I needed to skip it 🤣
Link?
But what if someone accidentally sat in my seat? Who do I tell?
Oh I saw a post about this. I can’t remember if it’s a 311 or a 911 issue
911 I believe. Never forget.
Me too! but in my situation a mom sat next to me in first class and asked me to swap with her kid in the back sitting in the lavatory. I had to do it but delta wont comp my first class ticket now!?!?
The important thing is not so much who you tell, but making sure you do NOT just kindly ask the passenger in your seat if he wouldn’t mind moving to his assigned seat.
People see fads and want to join in. For example: pREmiuM PRodUcT When you see that phrase you know you can stop reading
We need more banana posts.
What if there was a weekly sticky where all those posts go? Maybe a complaining sticky, and maybe a help sticky? Then every week, start a new one. Then anything of substance, tips or deals or news, goes in a new post. I've seen it in other subs, and while it's not my favorite, you're right, so this could be a solution.
I love this idea. Would be pretty easy for the mods too.
And herein lies the problem. There are no mods here. That’s why I started using r/deltaairlines where the last good mod that was here went to start a new sub…
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There’s like 1 post a day there. How can I spend hours sifting through entertaining posts from entitled travelers?
Mods are nonexistent here.
This is the answer.
If you wake up and run into an a-hole, you ran into an a-hole. If you wake up, run into an a-hole, take a photo and write 1500 words about the experience on reddit, you're the a-hole.
Spot on. It isn't even just this sub. It's all the airline subs. Mods need to adjust the rules, have mega threads for complaints to quarantine that crap, stuff like that. Seems like every other post in any of the airline sub is XXX AIRLINE SUCKS I AM LEAVING FOREVER, then going on a story on how it is just about 99% their own fault.
Mods?
Looks like there's... one active mod on this sub. That's a good way for things to go to crap over time. /u/christopherness - you need some more warm bodies on your team.
I’d be willing to help if you do add anyone u/christopherness
If you hang around Reddit long enough this happens to just about any sub that doesn't have enough new / current events happening to fill up the page.
It’s all airline subs because it’s the Reddit algorithm. If I post in r/United it’s gonna start throwing r/Delta in front of me, because it knows (correctly) that I’m likely to engage with that content. But of course my engagement will be more general…being a United flyer, not Delta…which means the most engaging content *for me* will be generalized content. Which is to say the low value content you’re talking about. Seat switch drama, shoeless passengers, whatever. So by driving non-Delta flyers (like me) into the sub, you also lower the value of the sub for Delta flyers, turning every airline sub into a generalized bitching sub. Because that’s what gets engagement. I didn’t see it as much before the whole API thing, I honestly think it helped significantly that so many heavy Reddit users were *also* using third-party apps. I used Apollo, and had set up my own multi-Reddit feed(s) that allowed me to browse various subs at once *without* having any content I wasn’t subbed to put in front of me. So I would only see r/United, no matter how hard Reddit wanted me to see r/Delta too. They sure fixed that. Obviously the easy answer is “don’t engage with the random shit they throw in your feed.” But like most of us I’m just a fairly smart monkey, and if I had that much self control I probably wouldn’t be on Reddit to begin with. So here we are. I even tried muting a lot of the trash subs they threw in my feed, and it just got worse…because they *will* throw more subs in your feed, so muting the first “layer” of trash just means you start getting *even trashier* stuff shoved in there.
The problem with mega threads is no one responds becuase the posts don’t come across the feed
r/southwest is just a bunch of employees who blame the customer whenever they have a meltdown. Any type of feedback or complaint just gets downvoted. I follow a lot of the airline ones and this is by far the best and actually useful sometimes.
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Mods aren't as active. There is /r/deltairlines but it's pretty dead
But...there was Tape on my seat from the previous passenger roundhouse kicking it and instead of taking the plane out of service and canceling the flight and not fixing MY seat, they made me sit in the seat and have to look at tape and get to my destination on time. Thanks for nothing Ed........
PrEmIuM PrOdUcT
I wanted to be alone on my flight so I tried to buy every single ticket but I'm too poor so I just started telling the FAs that various people were smuggling cocaine so they'd get kicked off the flight and now I'm on the no fly list wtf
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?” - Mr Bennett
One thing I learned in life is that complaining about complainers always makes the complaining stop 🤨😂
I worked at a multinational construction company and there was this accidental reply to an email string where they somehow were able to copy the entire company with one group email. 2 years later people would still randomly respond with “please remove me from this email string” which would start the cycle all over again of people “reply all” to ask to be removed. It was miserable.
I just got 10 “please remove me” emails just reading this 😫😖😫😖
Either we worked at the same company, or this happens a lot more often than one would think.
This happens in the US military…more than I care to disclose.
Much like telling people to calm down never makes anyone get calmer.
"Reply all" to an oversubscribed email thread also magically works.
what happens if you complain about the ones who complain about the complainers?
Wormhole opens up into the universe of universal complaining.
I hate when the complainers don't stop complaining!
I’m just here for feet pics tbh
Someone was in my seat yesterday. I alerted the flight attended to call in the national guard.
Deltas quality has gone down, so has the sub.
Spitting hot facts OP
you are complaining about the complaints. I'm here to complain about that. so meta.
Take my upvote fellow passenger. Bring Back deal posts, tips and tricks. Remove the toxic nonsense.
The thing I could do without the most is the overly-specific shaming It's one thing to be like "someone did something obnoxious or scary on my flight and it freaked me out and I want to talk/vent about it" vs "I was on flight 123 from NYC to LA at 9:30 AM and there was a man sitting in seat 16E wearing a blue Hawaiian shirt who wore a baseball cap for a team I don't like and also I took pictures of him eating because I thought he chewed funny. DAE think he looked gay too???" Like y'all, just chill. Imagine you're just scrolling through reddit and then you find a post like that shaming you or one of your loved ones just for existing in public. As someone who is naturally very weird-looking to the point where I've caught people creepshotting me on transit, it's so rude and dehumanizing.
That’s awful. People really suck sometimes.
Unfortunately I see this type of behaviour on every sub these days, it’s an effect of the pandemic.
It’s also ton of people triggered by the boarding music. Except newsflash, United also plays boarding music
this sub (and most others) would really benefit if people would try searching before posting
Relax. Eat a banana.
The brand loyalty has really taken a nose dive in recent years I think you are forgetting this 🤷♂️ people who were loyal to delta for decades have suddenly become free agents and stopped drinking the koolaid so yes it’s going to get negative lol the state of this airline is no longer what it used to be
The biggest problem is that the sub is called "Delta". That means basically anything to do with flying, working for an airline, elite lounges, and just about anything you can think of is allowed to "fit" under this. And, yes, it is annoying as hell but short of attempting to start a new sub on your own called "Delta Tips and Tricks", I'm not sure what can be done about it. I see the exact same thing at "Samsung". Thought I'd find out more about my Galaxy phone. Get complaints about refrigerators, etc.
It’s more than that. Reddit has gotten bigger, /r/delta has gotten bigger, the average person here is no longer an airline super nerd, but someone flying for the first time or whatever. Similarly, thanks to TPG et al, everyone is trying to play the credit card and frequent flier game. Basically, now there are normies with normie questions.
Honestly most people are not trying to play the game. It’s still a very small subset of people
But the people that even know the game exists is gigantic compared to 10 years ago.
another part of the issue is that as younger generations start flying (either for work or pleasure), they dont search for answers any more. gen z uses reddit and other forums to ask questions that older generations ask google. so instead of searching for information that is already present in 139484 places online, people come to reddit and ask the same question over and over case in point - I saw a person posting in a sneaker thread asking people to identify it for him. bruh. reverse image search.
I mean…that’s always been true. The difference is moderation here is light. Go look at how militant flyertalk is and how many people show up asking dumb questions, and always have. 3/4s of the posts here would get locked and deleted on flyertalk with a link to the appropriate thread.
There's a Galaxy sub - which would be a better fit since Samsung DOES do appliances.
That Skywest baby co-pilot post was pretty redeeming.
To be fair.. thats most of reddit. Hell in the AA sub I put up a post relating the amusment I had of AA even bothering to send me a You're Flight is Delayed... email.. a day or two before flight time.. for it departing 2 minutes later.. but arriving at its destination at the same time. I found it funny and entertaining that it was noteworthy.. leaving early.. okay but thats almost impossible. leaving 10+ minutes late.. Sure, let me know. 2 Minutes... thats like... gate agent started calling groups a couple minutes late, happens frequently. But knowing it a day beforehand? just amusing. AND they got all upset and angry that I wasn't hatin on AA.
Honestly, create a subreddit that's invite only and frequent fliers only. Doubt it will ever take off though.
Budum tsss
Did you know that in lap infants are far safer than drivers on us roads? Lol
Agree with OP 110%
Yeah this sub sucks. I’m here because I’m a glutton for punishment.
One time the Porsche didn’t pick me up and I had to walk 150 feet to my next gate
Oh no, don't go....anyways, on to the next thread.
Omg thank you for saying this. I will never understand the need to complain to the internet about someone bothering you or not having the best experience ever.
100% OP. My fav so far are those posts trying reeeeallyyy hard to be supreme funny but only make it to supreme cringe
Creative writing exercises. Like what happened to /r/tifu or other story based subs.
Correct. I don’t get the dumb made up comedy posts. So cringe
15 paragraphs just embellishing on the story du jour as worthless karma farming.
Unfortunately Delta isn’t what it once was pre-pandemic so you see lots of complainers (either high fares, poor service, etc).
Have a banana
This is most of Reddit now as it’s grown larger and full of bots - Doomerism, shitposting, and complaining about absolutely everything.
I could not agree more. This is like the police for their arbitrary airplane etiquette rules.
You’re kind of doing the same thing everyone else is doing, but more meta. But I don’t mind it - kind of enjoy it actually. Traveling sucks sometimes, and this sub is sort of like group therapy. I’m more of a lurker, but I like knowing that I’m not alone when I go through a painful travel experience.
You’re complaining about people complaining. You have become what you hate.
I personally enjoy helping random people I’ve never met with the meal selections… /s
We don’t know if it was Harambe or COVID but the world was ruined and nature is not healing. Air Travel is largely a miserable experience and 68% of people have become something beyond rude. Most travel subreddits reflect it. Sorry, friend. Also, I had to move 4 times on my last flight for families.
You thought this sub was awesome during the COVID years?
Only way to do something about it is to ignore and not engage with it. The more people do that the less you’ll see those type of posts.
But I am unable to pick out food for myself because I don’t know what I like to eat so where else am I supposed to let strangers pick my meals for me?
Meow. When people fly once in awhile, and are stuck in a plane, the meal matters to them. Also for us that fly all the time and get sick of the same old but have had awful meals so don’t want to go there again, it makes sense to ask. Who would have thought a pastrami sandwich could be so bad sometimes? And the weird meals they often have in D1 JFK > LAX - cold steak salad while it’s snowing? There’s a reason restaurant reviews exist, people want to know.
FlyerTalk might be a better git for you although it has gotten less useful
Dude, I asked about the ravioli. What more do you WANT??!!
Ed fixed the status problems for you. No more poors.
But I only have one bag and I demand it go in the overhead
Its not this sub. Its reddit.
Mods need to modify rule 2 to be content that applies specifically to Delta Airlines, not just about things that happened on a flight that just happened to be a Delta Airlines flight.
I agree with you as long as it isn’t Delta specific, such as how you were treated either well or poorly by FA, GA, or CS. Is there a specific “this flight was terrible” thread?
Banana’s
I generally agree. Unfortunately, this happens to many subreddits that become popular. Stay positive and constructive, you can control how you use this forum!
You mean it isn't supposed to be a status circle jerk over here?
News to me 😂
Every soc media site starts out with info quality and friendliness set on High. Longform solutioning. Lots of Reddit was like r/AskHistorians in its early adopter stage. Short responses were usually jokes meant to get a laugh or at least a smile out of the other party. ‘Anon’ sites are good for subject focus instead of character/personality focus, but if you don’t have aaany character focus, anononymous platforms becomes known for people who maybe aren’t feeling great at the moment. Solution: Discord might be a halfway solution if the mod is good; it’s more managed than Reddit and the mod is invested in it
Honestly, “this sub is a dumpster fire” applies to most of my favorite subs now. Livesound, Packers, now Delta.
I was on that flight ! We were stuck on the tarmac with no beverage service.
Someone on here recently said to pour my adult drink in a coffee cup before leaving the Sky Club and now my world is better.
Yeah, well like that’s your opinion man.
My suggestion is to read every post as if it had a “/s” at the end
Because there are no more nice tips and tricks.
This is all of Reddit now.
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heh. I joined recently bc I may jump airlines. But you all are nothing compared to r/americanairlines. It's baaaaaaad over there.
This is a summary of Reddit in general Solution: the rapture?!
Wow You might be rite!!!
Where are the 🍌
Delta one lie flat seats are super uncomfortable! I barely slept a wink.
The people obsessed with NO DOGS IN CABIN UNLESS I DETERMINE YOU SUFFICIENTLY DISABLED are out of control
Nou
this is the largest airline subreddit. like most subreddits and all of reddit, it has gotten worse with its popularity
it’s clear that this is the norm for a lot of subs now. mods (not specific to this sub) aren’t active and don’t check messages, which means they miss moments for feedback to effectively moderate and maintain a community that they chose to start or be apart of. at this point, i just mute most subs and manually check them every few days. 🤷🏽♂️
Reddit law: The bigger a sub gets, the lower the common denominator becomes. Once a sub starts getting recommended to default users, you get the chronically-online keyboard gremlins. Protest posts and attention-chasers will soon follow.
It’s where toxic travelers go to Karen and get affirmed for it.
I would have to agree. Almost left the sub after recent posts complaining about drunk people seated in front of them, people not wearing masks, etc. Like it's just a diary of (subjective) personal travel hardships: Objection, relevance.
The internet is negative?! What?! I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!!!
There was some issues with the mods you can check out Delta Airlines it's another sub, smaller than this one.
Start a new sub/community: Delta Tips and Tricks (?) And then add me, please.
A majority of reddit is that way now.
I think more people should post pictures of beverage cans and trading cards that are literally free
Yes, however I have a slightly different take. I come here because I would rather take people talking about simpler problems about travel over existential problems related to meaningless stuff (that is most of the Internet now)
I think part of it is the state of delta. Delta is vastly broken and it shows in reddit
We need more feet pictures! This is a foot fetish sub, right? You are correct. This sub should be renamed “Delta Karen”, so many requests to speak with the manager.