fly right my ass

Why is it that the things that are supposed to be the most enjoyable take the most planning? Weddings, vacations, even going out to dinner. All of these involve picking dates, seeing who’s available and obviously money. It usually is a general rule of thumb that the planning causes a major headache but it ends up being worth it in the end. So by the time you want to plan something else, you have forgotten what a pain in the ass it is. Sort of like labor and delivery. Tomorrow a bunch of us are headed to Nashville and since we have booked our flights I’ve had a personal vendetta out for Delta Airlines.

To make a long, long story sort of short we book our flights to Nashville early and spent extra money to get there earlier in the day and have no layovers. Delta changed it randomly to a flight WITH a layover that got to Nashville 2.5 hours later. So we called to demand better flights. Just fair warning for anyone that needs to do this: talking to Delta representatives will make anyone want to throw yourself on the runway in front of the plane. After many agonizing phone calls, we were switched to a slightly better but not ideal flight. Then finally, this past Monday, I get an email that says that I’m back on my original direct flight. Great except I was the only one that got it and it turned out to be some sort of glitch in the system. So essentially they just sent me a random fake email with fake itinerary just to have me call AGAIN. They really are making me work for this trip. I can’t take credit for the above coloring masterpiece but it pretty much sums up how I feel.

A month after booking my flight to Nashville, I booked a trip for my parents to Chicago. They went through the exact same random flight changes with no warnings and cancellations all over the place. Case and point I am never ever flying with Delta again. After all this switching we ended up being on American Airlines anyway so I guess that’s okay. Time will tell.


After doing a little research it seems that I’m not the only one with issues with Delta. I found endless amounts of blogs and articles on how sucky (for lack of a better word) they are. It just goes to show that a ton of advertising goes a long way. One blog I found had a list of Delta’s slogans that made me l.o.l. for sure. Here’s just a sampling: “Delta: Our pilots are terminally ill and have nothing to lose.”, “Delta: We never make the same mistake three times.” and my personal favorite “Delta: A real man lands where he wants to.”


After all the flight changes, fake flight changes, complaining, organizing and paying, tomorrow we leave and I could not be happier. We have a great group going and I can’t wait to hang out in a totally different place where we don’t know a single person. Have a great weekend…I know I will :)