Thanks for the input. The luggage doesn't worry me too much - we'll only have one (large) check-in going out - probably two coming back (you know how it is). And no problems is what I want to hear.
My only past experience with Delta was actually pretty good.... I was chaperoning a youth group to Orlando, and we had just boarded the flight to Orlando after taking the red-eye to Atlanta, when one of the guys calls me over. Seems there was a problem.
One of our teens had zippered his sweatshirt to his eyelid.
Kinda' like that scene from There's Something About Mary.
Now, I have a lot of experience travelling with teens, but this was a new one. We called over the flight attendent who was as perplexed as I was. But they weren't going to hold up the flight, and he wasn't about to fly with a sweatshirt zippered to his eyelid, so the two of us were hussled off the plain to await the paremedics.
Then began of the more surreal experiences I've had as a youth group advisor, as a constant stream of flight attendents, Delta personell, etc. came buy to see the remarkable site while the paramedics debated how best to remove the sweatshirt. They finally decided the best approach was a firm yank - which worked, leaving behind some swelling but no harm done.
Meanwhile, the Delta folk had (without prompting) booked us on the next flight and we were on our way soon after. They treated us very nicely and sympathetically (only laughing while out of site I'm sure).
