Delta Airlines Declared as Best Airline Despite Harsh Pet Policy

Delta Airlines of US has been declared as the best airline of US by Fodor’s travel. Fodor’s is one of the most reputed awards in the travel industry. This ranking comes after the Skytrax ratings wherein American carriers made a despicable show, not being present in the top 20 ranks in any of the rating categories.

With this award, Delta airlines seems to have captured some space. Fodor has given this rating on the basis of the age of its fleet and the number of flights offered. Another important factor which led Delta to the top slot is that of punctuality. Delta has been “the most” punctual of all, as per the DoT statistics.

Not only has Delta been ranked first on above mentioned parameters, it also the second best when it comes to over-sized person travel and pets category. Their seats are wider than those of most of the other carriers but are not as wide as those of the jetBlue airlines.

With respect to their pets policy, it allows carriage of birds apart from cats and dogs in cabin so long as these can be carried in a kennel which can be kept beneath the seat.

However, the airline had made changes to its pets carriage policy in December 2018. Some of the main provisions of this policy change were:

    a)      Complete ban on carriage of service and support animals that are less than 4 months of age.

  b)      Complete ban on carriage of emotional support animals on flights of more than eight hours

duration.

These restriction come into play for all Delta Airlines air tickets done for travel on or after February 1, 2019.

The policy has invited criticism citing the plight of those people who depend on these animals for travel. Especially, the senior citizens and those who need these animals as a part of their medical care are likely to be affected.

The airline, however, maintains that this policy will actually introduce more safety and healthy practices on the flights.

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Basic Facts To Know About Delta Airlines Before Doing Reservations

When you proceed with ticket booking on Delta airlines and take a flight, you must realize that you are flying with one of the most iconic brands of modern times in USA. Delta Airlines flies to every nook and corner of the USA. In addition, it has reach to many destinations around the world. These destinations are connected with its own flights or those of alliance partners. So, here is a brief summary of Delta’s proud history.

Delta Airlines was founded in the year 1924, though the operations were started only in 1929. This makes present year its 90^th operational year, which is a remarkable achievement. It is true that there are not much of competition for airline during those days as is nowadays. It is also a fact that there were not many air passengers during those days as compared with the present day.

The airline is based in Atlanta as its head office is located here. The Atlanta International Airport, which is also one of the busiest airports in the world, is its major hub. Besides Atlanta, there are 5 other hubs and 3 focus cities. These make a total of 9 major pivots of its operations. Delta airlines flight reservation for domestic and international destinations do touch down these cities on many of the routes.

The airline has codeshare agreement with more than 20 other airlines of the world, which provides it a global reach. It is a member of SkyTeam aviation alliance and have joint venture agreements with 6 airlines. So, the airline is in pact with a number of carriers from around the world to meet the travel needs of its passengers. In all, it connect about 304 destinations with its flights.

The passengers can book from amongst an awesome 6 cabin classes of service. Very few airlines have a cabin class categorization of 6 levels. These choices more than fulfill the need of travelling in different ways on Delta flights.

The airline is also at the fore-front of adoption technology which is environment-friendly. One of these is the PreKote airplane paint technology. This paint does not involve use of dangerous chemicals. At the same time, it takes less time to paint the plane with it. The consumption of water is reduced by two-thirds. As consumption of water is less, there is a saving of costs and time on treatment of water. Thus, it is expected to save $1 million annually. Delta can pass on these benefits to passengers by way of cheap Delta flight tickets.

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The Points Guy Names Delta Airlines As Best Airline for 2019

The Points Guy has outlined the best and the worst American airlines of 2019 in its third annual survey. To begin with the final results at first, Delta Airlines has been established as the Best Airline, followed by Alaska, Southwest, United, Hawaiian, American, jetBlue, Allegiant, Spirit and Frontier. So, Frontier is the last one, or can be called the worst airline.

The question that naturally comes to mind is on what basis has the Points Guy come to such conclusions. Some of the criteria used by it have been outlined here:

a)      Percentage of flight delays and cancellations and number of destinations reached: Hawaiian Airlines has come on top in this respect as only 6.4% of flights were delayed for max 30 minutes. Cancellations on Hawaiian were also low at 0.3%. Frontier had most delays about 24.6% and jetBlue most cancellations about 2.2%.

b)      How likely are passengers likely to get ‘bumped off’ on a particular airline?- Delta came first on this metric. The airline had just 32 passengers involuntarily removed from its flight out of a 136 million flyers. On the contrary, Frontier bumped more than 1365 passengers out of 20 million passengers.

c)       Affordability- Spirit Airlines had the best fare cost per mile flown, whereas Southwest had best ancillary price.

d)      Comfort: Delta is the oldest fleet of average 17 years whereas Frontier has just 4 years as age of fleet. This makes Frontier the freshest in cabin experience.

Hawaiian and Frontier have widest seats at 18 inches on an average whereas Alaska has the narrowest seats at 17 inches.

Only Alaska airlines has power outlets on every seat.

jetBlue provides free Wi-Fi across its entire fleet, making it the only airline to do so.

With 52 lounges in 32 cities, Delta has the highest number of lounges across its network.

e)      Customer Satisfaction- Frontier has most number of complaints filed against it with DOT, at 778 complaints by flying just 19 million passengers. Southwest, which flies the highest number of passengers, at about 10 million, had lesser number of complaints at 602.

Spirit conducted itself really well in losing only about 1.7 bags over 1000 passengers whereas the American Airlines lost about 3.8 bags per 1000 passengers.

The significance of this survey is that the people are going to base their flying decision depending on the position each airline has got with respect to these metrics. So, the chances of getting Delta flight ticket reservations are more than that of other major airlines due to its overall superiority in these metrics.

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