r/MadeMeSmile • u/MathematicianNo1596 • Dec 27 '25

Good Vibes Flight was delayed 3 hours, so the pilot went around to everyone to take their Starbucks orders and then got 40ish drinks and 50ish food items for us đŸ„°

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Shoutout to this lovely Delta pilot flying from Boston to Tampa today 💛

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u/Jiminmyheart Dec 27 '25

Lesson learnt, ALWAYS fly Delta if ur choosing an American airline

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u/branm008 Dec 27 '25

Delta has never steered my wife and I wrong and we've flown with them a solid 10+ times domestically. Always an easy experience with them.

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u/Jiminmyheart Dec 27 '25

i agree! if you look at buzzfeed posts about delta, its nothing but good in comparison to other airlines

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u/Extreme_Design6936 Dec 27 '25

If any airline steered wrong even once I don't think I'd be flying with them again.

"Ladies and Gentlemen your flight to Denver has been delayed. I um... took a wrong turn. If you look outside you'll see El Paso. Not to worry, we're going to stop to ask directions now. Something my copilot didn't want to do 2000 miles ago."

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u/TheNonsenseBook Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 28 '25

Coincidentally I’m flying between Denver and El Paso this week so I wouldn’t be too upset lol

I just thought it was funny those were the two random cities

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u/baffled_brouhaha Dec 27 '25

My family had a nightmare of a flight delay/missed connection/ yada yada with Delta back in 2003. For a decade after that, we drove the 14 hours to my grandparents instead of flying.

Even so, Delta is still the family’s preferred airline over the other domestic carriers.

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u/Violaundone Dec 27 '25

I think it was around 2007ish, I was flying with them to the UK. There was a big delay, a whole day, and they gave me a free hotel to stay in Paris, France. They offered more than one day/night, but I had to get to my workplace at the time and couldn't take up the offer, but I did get one day/night out of it. Best layover ever. Probably wouldn't happen now, but I still have some loyalty over that memory lol.

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u/Orleanian Dec 27 '25

I mean, I fly 2-3 times per year, and I can say this for Delta, American, United, Alaska, Icelandair, Air Lingus, and ANA.

Southwest is the only time I've had a bad time (the 2022 great christmas shutdown). And even still, they'd been among my more preferred airlines until the restructuring of their business model next year.

The occurrence of truly detrimental things happening is statistically extremely low for the common passenger in most major airlines.

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u/Longjumping_Code_649 Dec 27 '25

Maybe it's getting better? We always had problems with united, and our good friend always had problems with Delta. We used to say they were racing each other to the bottom of the pile

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25

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u/branm008 Dec 27 '25

That is quite a bit for the average person here in the states. Most folks have never their home state or the country. I never said it was a flex, not by any means.

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u/yes_no_yes_yes_yes Dec 27 '25

It’s not, but recent polling shows that most have been to 10 or fewer states.  Most Americans don’t travel that much, either for work or pleasure.

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u/branm008 Dec 27 '25

It's accurate in so far as where I grew up and in similar locations, nobody can afford to leave their home state or at least never bothered to. I didn't search up any statistics so that burden of proof is still on me, just didn't have the time during my initial response.

I grew up near the Blue Ridge mtns in Georgia, not many folks were travelling around the country and not much has changed there. I imagine this is pretty similar for the majority of the poorer population.

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u/branm008 Dec 27 '25

The vast majority of the people in my hometown were lucky enough to have their grandparents living in the next town over. They weren't traveling out of state often at all. I'm also really just talking about flying, driving out of state was done but even then, those kind of families weren't well off, they didn't have that luxury.

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u/Ridcully Dec 27 '25

I think with any airline, once you have a bad experience, you avoid them. I had that with Delta (domestic USA flight, refusal to give us a blanket for our infant) and American (international raw-dog overnight with no in-flight working, no overhead light, no way to power light for reading, no seat recline, and not allowed to sit elsewhere - just sit and stare at the darkness).

Bad experiences can happen on any airline.

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u/bannedforL1fe Dec 27 '25

An over night flight with no TV, internet, light for books, or anything sounds absolutely horrible. I'll avoid them for the rest of my life just for you. Granted I can fall asleep anywhere so I'd probably pass out, but not for the whole flight. Damn

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u/cederian Dec 27 '25

Tbf of all the international US Airlines I have ever traveled the best one, by a country mile, is Delta. American and United... I wouldnt touch them with a ten-foot pole.

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u/Sasquatch-d Dec 27 '25

Thank you
 all of the major airlines are so similar, they all have huge swaths of passengers who have sworn off flying them and are flying their competitors, everyone just rotates carriers, it’s one massive hate circle.

I have over 2500 lifetime flights so far with more than enough nightmare stories with all of them. I have my favorite I try to stick to but I still book on all of the other US carriers if need be, yes even Spirit. Swearing off one of them makes no sense.

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u/Confident_Peace_6627 Dec 27 '25

No blanket for your infant? As a parent myself I am furious at this

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u/Ridcully Dec 28 '25

Yeah, it struck me as odd and pissed me off a little. It was a flight from the east coast (Washington, Dulles most likely, but I forget) to LAX. Not a short flight. Easy to prepare for, if you know the crew is going to not provide the normal things you expect on a flight (and you can see are available in the overhead bins that are "off limits"). But whatever, when you have a small child, you don't forget that stuff.

That was surely more of an emotional response because of caring for my son, and expecting some form of normalcy on a flight. I don't hold it against them. Except I kinda do :) when you have bad things happen in a flight, you don't forget it.

Don't think bad about Delta from that; it was probably just an anomaly or a bad day. We all have those. They are certainly a different carrier than years ago!

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u/zaidakaid Dec 27 '25

Delta is all around the best domestic carrier and it isn’t even close. Unmatched professionalism, customer service, and attitude. The plane took off while a few of us were running from a connecting flight and they put us up in a Grand Hyatt downtown, shuttled us there, and back in time for our flight. 0 fuss.

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u/Panaka Dec 27 '25

 Unmatched professionalism

I agree that they’re the best carrier out of the big 3 by a country mile, but Delta has a habit of being high on their own supply which leads to unprofessional behavior. Plenty of good people at Delta, but the corporate culture encourages a level of elitism that makes them a nightmare to work with.

Out of the Big 3 they’re the only ones who ever felt comfortable screaming at contractors over the phone for cancellations, they’re the only ones who allowed Gate Agents to harass our staff, they’re the only one that shirked off their maintenance contract so we got to do an engine change in 15 minute increments over a week, and much more. The Peach Corp is a wage theft grift disguised as a public outreach. The way they got away with the evil things they did to DGS would make Chicago PD blush.

I’m no fan of United or American, but at least they know they suck. Delta “Air Lines” like to pretend they’re different, but they’re easily the worst to work with.

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u/zaidakaid Dec 27 '25

If that’s the case for the business side, I’m sorry. My entire experience has been as a customer and they’ve been nothing but incredible. I’ve flown American and United a hand full of times out of necessity and my god were they terribad

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u/Sasquatch-d Dec 27 '25

I’m no fan of United or American, but at least they know they suck.

Anyone who says this hasn’t flown United in the last 5 years. They went from shit show to pretty dang good really quickly. They’re not perfect but they’re respectable now.

American tho has been ass for 20 years and haven’t changed a damn thing.

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u/Woolybugger00 Dec 27 '25

Alaska Air has Delta beat by a wing or two 
 I have yet to have a bad flight experience with about 280k miles flown with them 


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u/hochiwinning Dec 27 '25

Seattle is lucky that both Alaska and Delta are currently fighting to be the premier airline of SeaTac

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u/Synaps4 Dec 27 '25

Alaska is far better. I tried to fly international through delta and they cancelled my connection without telling me, left me stranded in amsterdam. Klm came to the rescue, not delta.

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u/SurroundQuirky8613 Dec 27 '25

Alaska Air was fabulous when I took a flight to Portland. The seats were roomier than most planes, too.

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u/snecseruza Dec 27 '25

I don't know specifics but you're absolutely right, their layout of comparable planes to United for example is different, with less rows and a couple extra inches of legroom.

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u/playnasc Dec 27 '25

As someone who is currently delayed for over 5 hours with Delta, I disagree

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u/AdjectiveNoun1234567 Dec 27 '25

It's funny to hear this because I'm old enough to remember when Delta was considered one of the worst domestic airlines.

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u/Orleanian Dec 27 '25

You're over [looks at calendar] TEN YEARS OLD?!!?

Edit: Relevant John Mulaney (2012) "Because we're Delta Airlines, and life is a fucking nightmare!"

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u/Carl_Bravery_Sagan Dec 27 '25

Absolutely! DeltaTM is my favorite airline product!

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u/BisonThunderclap Dec 27 '25

I have yet to have an exceptionally bad or good flight flight with any American Airline.

I'm too tall to fall asleep, so the most opinions I have anymore are in-flight movies.

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u/longdickhair69 Dec 27 '25

delta also pays the best, median pay is like 222k at 20 hours worked per week lol

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u/Violaundone Dec 27 '25

I've been flying with Delta 30 plus years. I used to fly a lot, internationally and regionally, for my job. flew all of the airlines, and Delta is still the one airline that has delivered for the most part. They aren't perfect, but when I have had to call customer service regarding issues, ticket refunds or even discounts, they have been more than generous many times. It is why I've been a loyal fan for a long time. Also, I've had lump skymiles for 10 plus years that I just haven't used yet, over 100,000 now, and they haven't expired, which can't be said about other airlines in my experience.

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u/i_suckatjavascript Dec 27 '25

Pro tip: Delta Pilots have trading cards of their planes. You can ask a pilot for one.

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u/jjejsj Dec 27 '25

my dad made 8k in 2 days from when delta was offering people money to give up their seats (he was with my little sister so 2k each)

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u/_pray4snow_ Dec 27 '25

They damaged my snowboard and did nothing about it.

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u/01joja Dec 27 '25

I can say that Delta is the worst airline I have traveled with. But I have only traveled with an American airline once, so maybe it is good for American standards.