One sad thing about the current state of affairs with DELTA.com is the lack of info when an aircraft swap happens or slight time change or flight number change occurs on your itinerary.
Now you will not see this when you simply look at your flight LIST in your upcoming itinerary page:
But you must rather click on each one to expand it and see what it really looks like (this is just nuts).
As you can see I have a trip I need to have DELTA fix for me. Now, I strongly urge you, don’t click on ANYTHING – PERIOD! DELTA.com when it come to things like this very DELTA.dumb and there are many reports all over the web of itinerary just going bye bye when you click almost anything. In addition, when you later call DELTA for help, they say you have clicked CANCEL when you clearly did not!
So, I suggest you call DELTA, ask them to please “clean up” your itinerary, then BEFORE you hang up with the rep say, “let me just see if I can see what you see on DELTA.com” and make sure all is well for you. Then, and only then, you can you go into the record and look for the seats you had before or want. If your aircraft changed you can always look at Seat Guru here.
Now the ridiculously frustrating part of this is that as soon as they do “clean up” the record, you should expect very quickly an e-mail that there has been a change to your itinerary. Maybe “IT” could do this before we find it? Ah well.
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So true.!
If I had a thousand bucks 4 each of those change of itinerary emails, I’d be a
rich woman
Good to know. I would have clicked away before calling customer service.
Thanks for the info. Well be traveling over the holidays, might need more the 2 drink coupons.
This happened to me recently, and I remember wishing I had read up on it. Thanks!
Yo….Delta.dumb really? 🙂
The only option I know of it to check my itineraries and seat assignments at least once a week for distant trips, and daily for the 4 days immediately before a trip.
As Scott says — you have to “tend your garden” of Delta reservations. If an equipment change doesn’t get you, a schedule change will.
well said!
Good to know. thanks.
Thanks for the tip.
Appreciate the tips. Also unfortunate that a can’t buy the domain delta.dumb and donate
I guess I’ve been lucky so far. Thanks for the tip.
While I agree to some extent, I’ll also point out that the ability to make changes online when IRROPS occurs is by and far the best of all US airlines. You’ll get options that are great for whatever your priority is – miles, direct flight, and even every now and then, an upgrade because First Class is all that’s left. Often, I find that agents I call DO NOT offer the same options, and have kicked myself for not checking dl.com FIRST to see what options it provides. I will admit that I’ve never had any experiences with changed itineraries, so that isn’t a data point for me.
Thanks for the tip.
Great tip! Thanks!
i’ve never had this happen to me, either. (knock on wood)
happy thanksgiving!
Thanks for the post. I am enjoying your blog.
Great post, and a good reminder!!
good to know i’m not the only one getting confused by those e-mails
Delta needs to get with it!
I have clicked away several times. Thankfully I’ve never been burned. I did have an odd thing pop up on a trip to San Diego recently where I flew from Madison-Detroit-San Diego and while I was there I got an email telling me it was time to check-in about 3 days before my next flight was scheduled. Turns out delta.com had added a flight to my itinerary. So it looked like this:
MSN-DTW-SAN
MSN-DTW
SAN-MSP-MSN
I was worried that my missing this random MSN-DTW flight that hadn’t existed previously would cause the rest of the itinerary to be canceled, so I called and had it fixed. But it was odd.
Delta IT is a crime!
It is one thing to not offer certain functionality on a website…but to APPEAR to offer it and then have it make things WORSE is just WRONG!
Thanks for the heads up.
Thanks for the info
Have encounter the similar case. It seems that I need to call them.
Great!
I like to check my itinerary atleast once a week before my trip, maybe more often as it gets closer. Now, just need to find a great, warm place to go. Glad to find a blog devoted to Delta flyers.
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Love your blog!