*The following is a review based on my experience and is purely my opinion*
Today I am flying from Philadelphia to Portland, Oregon on Delta. The flight as a stop in Salt Lake City. Right now I am on the first leg of that trip. Much turbulence and not much fun.
This is the first time that I can recall ever flying Delta. In my opinion, this was a pretty dirty plane when we boarded. In fact, there was a crushed pretzel in my floor area. And when I dropped down my tray table it was practically covered in crumbs. And on the floor across the aisle, I can see a toothpick. Can you say, eewwww!!!!????!!!
I have to wonder – are Delta planes always this dirty? Or is it my lucky day?
On a pleasant note, the plane has Wi-FI and in-flight entertainment on the seat backs. Of course, the price of the Wi-Fi is rather steep. A shocking $12.95 for this four-hour flight. Sigh.
I’m sitting in the aisle seat, in economy, and while I normally like sitting in the aisle, I’m changing my seat on the return flight. You see, all of the aisle seats have less storage space under the seat in front of you. What does this mean? It means that my small bag won’t fit under the seat in front of me. Instead, my girlfriend has to put it in her space and I had to take her smaller bag. Since I was traveling with someone, it wasn’t such a huge deal, but had I been traveling alone it would’ve been horrible because neither of my carry-ons would’ve fit in the space. Regardless, a little warning would’ve been nice.
Service here on Delta is, in my opinion, lacking. In the past few months I have flown on Virgin America, Hawaiian Airlines and JetBlue and found each to have way better service, in my opinion. Actually, I wouldn’t say Hawaiian Airlines was way better, just better. There in one flight attendant in particular that seems rather pissy. She’s really no fun whatsoever. There is also a rather large male flight attendant whose arse I became almost intimately acquainted with on several instances during the beverage serving. Not cool.
On another note, my girlfriend has a lot of food allergies that leaves just milk, coffee and water as what she can drink on the plane. She usually gets milk so that she can have something with flavor. The pissy flight attendant and the large arse attendant told her that there was no milk on the flight at all. So, she got the water. Hey, at least there was something she could drink, right? Well, about a half hour later another flight attendant delivered a milk to the child sitting in the row in front of us. Clearly, there WAS milk on the plane. Seems that maybe we got the lazy flight attendants doing our beverage service? At least that’s my opinion. Not to mention just terrible service.
Sadly, there’s just over 2 hours left of this flight. Here’s hoping the turbulence lets up.
