Delta flight changes

[capecoddisneyfamily]

Ok, I would have never even gave this a second thought if I did not read about this here....so Thank You!!! I checked our flights today and I did not see our departure time, thinking it sold out. Well I looked by flight number and it was moved up by ten minutes. So Delta does not notify you for this? I know ten minutes is not a big deal. Second question what about the seats we secured does this change? Not that I am complaing, but the person sitting next to my kids might

 

[JennSaint]

Sometimes seat assignments change if it's a change in equipment.

 

[capecoddisneyfamily]

Thank you, it does look like a different plane. On a side note pitchers and catchers today, all is good in Red Sox nation

 

[DebbieB]

Definitely watch your reservation. I flew them last October to WDW, bought the tickets in February. There were a couple of schedule changes but one time the equipment changed and we got bumped from row 22 to row 43 (last row)! There were still plenty of seats in the front of coach so I moved us back up.

 

[mopee3]

Ok, So Delta does not notify you for this? I know ten minutes is not a big deal. Second question what about the seats we secured does this change?

If you give them a way to notify you, email address, they will notify you of time and seat changes. If you are all on the same reservation they will "probably" keep you all together. No promises, we have had 3 plane changes and now the 7 of us are scattered all up and down the isle, we made the reservation last September and got the seats we wanted. One party of 4 (all on same reservation), 1 adult, 3 children are now 2 and 2 and 3 rows apart. I called right after they made the last change, was told basicly too bad, soooo sorry, nothing we can do. The plane is booked solid except for 2 seats. We were told they will make a effort to keep the children with there parents when we get on the plane, try is the key word here.

In other words for us, we won't be flying Delta again period.

Luck

Moe

 

[PrincesCJM]

I bought tickets in June for my April 2011 trip. I have had several schedule changes and a plane type change. I wasn't notified of any changes until the most recent. It leads me to believe that they don't contact you until 3 months of flight. I checked my flights and noticed the change before Delta emailed me. The change affected flight times and plane type. With the plane change, they moved my seats all the way to the back. I didn't like that and changed our seats. The next day, Delta emailed me. The email had my new seats in it.

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

They need your email to advise you of any changes..I get a email of any change, no matter how small within a week of the change....AKK

 

[capecoddisneyfamily]

I provided my email when I purchased.....they emailed our original reservations..I will call today after work, thanks for the help

 

[lamb616]

If you are all on the same reservation they will "probably" keep you all together. No promises, we have had 3 plane changes and now the 7 of us are scattered all up and down the isle, we made the reservation last September and got the seats we wanted. One party of 4 (all on same reservation), 1 adult, 3 children are now 2 and 2 and 3 rows apart. I called right after they made the last change, was told basicly too bad, soooo sorry, nothing we can do. The plane is booked solid except for 2 seats. We were told they will make a effort to keep the children with there parents when we get on the plane, try is the key word here.

Ha! They want to try separating my kids from me, they'll have to listen to 2 kids screaming at the top of their lungs for 3.5 hours, lol.

 

[azdizzymom]

I get the emails from Delta...sometimes.

I have 4 of us on 3 reservations...all same flights and sometimes one of us will get email and the rest of the party won't. Sometimes two will get and one won't OR we all won't. I check weekly to monitor changes in times and seats. Just a fact of buying early on ANY AIRLINE.

I can say that Delta did claim that the night before an early morning flight they emailed us our flight was canceled. NOT!! We, along with the rest of the passengers showed up for the flight that morning to find out it was canceled due to not enough layover time (down time) for crew due to weather delay. Understandable but don't tell me you emailed me about this when there was not one in my inbox.

Also, please, please, please don't threaten what will happen if they don't sit your kids next to you. Think most people have noise canceling headphones and I will ignore them. Airlines do their best but if you don't have seats together GET TO THE AIRPORT EARLY!!!! Don't show up 1 hour or 30 minutes before a flight and expect them to move everyone around because you aren't seated together. Get there early when there are more open seats that are 'saved' for the airport. On our canceled flight we ended up flying out of another airport and arrived with no seat assignments....we got there 2 hours before after driving 1.5 hours to get there. Thankfully we were very polite and the lady worked to get us all seated together. I didn't threaten my kids on her (even though they are teenagers we like to sit together). We would have been fine separated but I nicely asked if it was possible for us to sit together. At first she said no there were no seats. I nicely explained how we had driven 1.5 hours after a canceled flight. She called someone and magically 4 seats appeared together in a row and aisle across. I think if I had been rude or threatened we would have been apart.

Guess advice is check weekly ---once or twice ON ANY AIRLINE for flight time changes and seat changes due to plane changes.

Purchase seats if you can if it is important for your family to sit together (AIRTRAIN, etc). Don't expect someone who has paid for a seat to move because you didn't pay for your seat.

Be kind and polite to gate agents .... they had nothing to do with the plane change, flight time change, etc. Being nice will get you further than being rude (it took me a LONG time to realize this one).

And lastly, DON'T THREATEN HOW YOUR KIDS WILL BEHAVE IF SEPARATED FROM YOU TO GATE AGENT OR PERSON WHOSE SEAT YOU WANT JUST BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T PAY FOR IT!

Think people need to be proactive when it comes to flying ....we can't expect airlines to contact us. Just check car reservations AND airline reservations regularly. Finding cheaper prices and flight changes are something that just takes a few minutes. It can save a lot of hassle on the flight changes.

 

[lamb616]

Also, please, please, please don't threaten what will happen if they don't sit your kids next to you. Think most people have noise canceling headphones and I will ignore them. Airlines do their best but if you don't have seats together GET TO THE AIRPORT EARLY!!!! Don't show up 1 hour or 30 minutes before a flight and expect them to move everyone around because you aren't seated together. Get there early when there are more open seats that are 'saved' for the airport. On our canceled flight we ended up flying out of another airport and arrived with no seat assignments....we got there 2 hours before after driving 1.5 hours to get there. Thankfully we were very polite and the lady worked to get us all seated together. I didn't threaten my kids on her (even though they are teenagers we like to sit together). We would have been fine separated but I nicely asked if it was possible for us to sit together. At first she said no there were no seats. I nicely explained how we had driven 1.5 hours after a canceled flight. She called someone and magically 4 seats appeared together in a row and aisle across. I think if I had been rude or threatened we would have been apart.

Guess advice is check weekly ---once or twice ON ANY AIRLINE for flight time changes and seat changes due to plane changes.

Purchase seats if you can if it is important for your family to sit together (AIRTRAIN, etc). Don't expect someone who has paid for a seat to move because you didn't pay for your seat.

And lastly, DON'T THREATEN HOW YOUR KIDS WILL BEHAVE IF SEPARATED FROM YOU TO GATE AGENT OR PERSON WHOSE SEAT YOU WANT JUST BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T PAY FOR IT!

I guess this post is directed at me? We DO have our seat assignments already paid for. But one of the PPs said because of plane changes they were all separated for some reason ??? That's what I was addressing.

And I'm not 'threatening' how my kids will behave, simply stating a fact. My 3 year old doesn't even let me go to the bathroom alone, so I can promise if she was not able to sit with me on an AIRPLANE - there would pretty much be 3.5 hours of constant screaming.

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

I provided my email when I purchased.....they emailed our original reservations..I will call today after work, thanks for the help

That is a bit odd then!

I hope it all works out for you!

AKK

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

I can promise if she was not able to sit with me on an AIRPLANE - there would pretty much be 3.5 hours of constant screaming.

Your 3 year old would not be separated from you. I can assure you that if your child was screaming at the top of her lungs before take-off and you were not able to control her, the two of you would be removed from the flight.

hink most people have noise canceling headphones and I will ignore them.

This is not how noise canceling headphones work. They do not completely shut out outside noise and believe me, you can hear a child screaming when you are using them. I have had a set of Bose headphones for years and have heard many crying babies on airplanes when wearing them.

 

[hinodis]

It doesn't matter if they have your email. You still may not get an email from them. I have had 2 flight changes and one plane change. After the first change I called and got us on another flight to my advantage. I also let them know that I did not receive an email about the change. She assured me that she would make sure if there was another change I would get an email. Well, I did not. So just check it and check it often.

 

[bettymae1121]

I'm a travel agent, Delta is by fare the WORST for frequency of schedule changes (SWA is the best as changes are truely a rare thing, in 13 years of being a TA, SWA has put through only one schedule change for one of my clients!). All airlines (except SWA) have schedule changes, but Delta is absolutely horrible about it. It's a 100% guarantee that if you book a Delta flight more than 30 days prior to travel, at least one of your flights will have some sort of change.

That said, usually for changes of less than 10 minutes, the airline (all airlines) won't notify you, so it's not just Delta that will "forget" to send an email. It's always a good idea to check your reservation with your airline once every few weeks and make sure a minor change didn't slip through the cracks. The farther ahead you book, the better the odds that some sort of change will happen.

 

[hinodis]

I'm a travel agent, Delta is by fare the WORST for frequency of schedule changes (SWA is the best as changes are truely a rare thing, in 13 years of being a TA, SWA has put through only one schedule change for one of my clients!). All airlines (except SWA) have schedule changes, but Delta is absolutely horrible about it. It's a 100% guarantee that if you book a Delta flight more than 30 days prior to travel, at least one of your flights will have some sort of change.

That said, usually for changes of less than 10 minutes, the airline (all airlines) won't notify you, so it's not just Delta that will "forget" to send an email. It's always a good idea to check your reservation with your airline once every few weeks and make sure a minor change didn't slip through the cracks. The farther ahead you book, the better the odds that some sort of change will happen.

Sometimes change is good. I am now arriving in Florida 9 hours earlier, thanks to Delta

 

[sam_gordon]

Sometimes change is good. I am now arriving in Florida 9 hours earlier, thanks to Delta

I'm getting in 3 hours earlier.

 

[DebbieB]

Sometimes change is good. I am now arriving in Florida 9 hours earlier, thanks to Delta

I too have used changes to my advantage on my last 2 vacations to WDW. In 2009, I had an award ticket and the earliest I could get there was around 4:00pm, going PIT-JFK-MCO. They changed the PIT-JFK flight so that it arrived the same time as JFK-MCO left. I looked at the schedule, what I really wanted was PIT-ATL-MCO that arrived around 12:30pm. Called and was able to get that one for no additional miles.

Last year, the latest flight I could get leaving Orlando was 12:30pm. There were a couple of changes that moved it up to 11:30am. I called and got put on a flight leaving at 6:30pm.