Sep
11
Delta’s Overweight?
Filed Under Airlines
It was a bad sign early this morning when we arrived at the LAX terminal 5 Delta check-in kiosk. The touch screen computer knew exactly what to do, but the six uniformed Delta employees standing nearby didn’t.
After our boarding passes printed out did any of the six Delta workers come over and process our luggage? No they kept on chatting it up. Maybe, since we were headed to Hawaii I should say they were “talking story”. After a about 2 minutes, just as i started to lean over and interrupt this gab fest I noticed that a woman who was working six or seven kiosks away was headed toward us.
She apologized for making us wait and glanced over at her fellow employees who kept up their conversation for another minute or two.
But hey, your headed to Hawaii, your early for your flight, life is good and the security check point was a breeze. We were all set for an on-time departure, but then we sat the gate for 90 more minutes. The flight crew made announcements saying that it was due to problems calculating the weight of the cargo that they had loaded on the aircraft, but who knows.
Thanks to favorable winds our filled to capacity 767-300 arrived into HNL only 60 minutes late. The 2-3-3 seating was comfortable and the hot breakfast meal was acceptable.
