Review of Delta Air Lines flight Los Angeles → New York in Economy

Airline Delta Air Lines
Flight DL763
Class Economy
Seat 40F
Aircraft Boeing 757-200
Flight time 05:00
Take-off 24 Jan 18, 06:30
Arrival at 24 Jan 18, 14:30
DL   #26 out of 94 Airlines A minimum of 10 flight-reports within the past two years is required to appear in the rankings. 833 reviews
Jett Tyler
By GOLD 2402
Published on 21st March 2018
My first time flying Delta Airlines and I am doing it on a trans-continental route.

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So I had 4 flights booked on this trip with Delta. 2x Boeing 757, a McDonnell-Douglas MD-88 and Boeing 767-300. A good mix of classic DL Metal that won't be around much longer.

So my flight would turn out to be on N704X, an ex-TWA machine that DL bought off AA in 2005 to allow them to fly trans-continental and "skinny" European routes from the East Coast.

So the flight was almost full and given that DL offers 2 bags (one carry on, one personal) they decided push was to come to shove & ask for volunteers.

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I had a big ruck-sack (which just comes under the personal bag dimensions) so I took the opportunity to put my small red suitcase on as a carry on as this was my only direct flight today.

Big surprise (they never mentioned this) was to find that as I volunteered my bag, I got my boarding class bumped to Group 1 from Group 5. Bonus!

So I get on and say Hi to all the cabin crew, I find my seat 40F in the Mood-Lit cabin. Sitting down I was surprised at the legroom on the plane. It seemed more generous than the KLM 747 and more generous to the Icelandair 757 I flew only 11 month before hand!



Most US Airlines offer free soft/hot drinks and have you pay for meals, snack boxes & food, however I found that DL had brought in proper free meals (breakfast in this case) for the trans-connie!

I spent the rest of the parked up time scanning through the DL in flight entertainment system wandering what shows, films & music were on the playlist as I had time. Not worth photographing much as it was still pre-dawn. Some notable finds included: Man V Food (2017 Series), Simpsons, Law & Order SVU, Dateline (Crime Doc) and the recent 2017 films Dunkirk and American Made.

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With the nearly full flight boarded, we pushed back and departed 10 minutes behind the scheduled departure time, which is quite sharp for LAX! As we took off the sun began to break on the horizon.

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With daylight now in full swing and after watching a few in-flight tv shows in between the in flight map, the Breakfast cart came. Three options were offered and I took a gamble on the Bagel.

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I found the breakfast really nice and a good addition to my flight. Only thing was the Lettuce & "Granny Smith" Apple slices which I took off- I didn't think it would have gone well with Cheese, ham and mustard in a Cinnamon Bagel. But that's just me.

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The rest of the flight went smooth & uneventful, the cabin crew did a final snack & beverage service about 2 hours from arrival to JFK.

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I took this as a good time to explore the galley on the 757!

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We did finally land in New York JFK a good 20 minutes ahead of schedule with no time to hold whatsoever, clean arrival straight in!



After we landed at JFK and turning off the runway a Xamian Boeing 787-9 departed as we backed up down the taxi-way. Had seen it awaiting as we passed on finals.

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We parked at Terminal 4 at JFK (the Delta Terminal building) and with that I left the plane via a quick visit to the Flight Deck.

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Video of DL763 Flight Report:



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Verdict

Delta Air Lines

10.0/10
Cabin10.0
Cabin crew10.0
Entertainment/wifi10.0
Meal/catering10.0

Los Angeles - LAX

8.9/10
Efficiency10.0
Access9.5
Services6.0
Cleanliness10.0

New York - JFK

8.0/10
Efficiency10.0
Access10.0
Services4.0
Cleanliness8.0

Conclusion

Delta: Was quite impressed on the Delta economy product on their trans-continental flight from the West Coast to East Coast. Cabin Crew were friendly and happy to speak to me for a bit in the galley during the long flight. Also very appreciative of a flight deck visit to conclude this trip. Would recommend & definitely fly DL again on this routing.

LAX: Managed to avoid the rush before the flight by checking in online and getting through security quickly. Not many good view points air side. Staff friendly and tolerant of filming my trip report during my experience.

JFK: Great connection service into New York, Staff accepting of photography of planes (not had this on other US Airports on my trip) but that's just them enforcing the cities rules.

Information on the route Los Angeles (LAX) → New York (JFK)

Les contributeurs de Flight-Report ont posté 19 avis concernant 5 compagnies sur la ligne Los Angeles (LAX) → New York (JFK).

Useful

La compagnie qui obtient la meilleure moyenne est JetBlue Airways avec 8.1/10.

La durée moyenne des vols est de 5 heures et 18 minutes.

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8 Comments

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  • Comment 437998 by
    KL651 TEAM 4534 Comments
    Thanks for this FR.
    Though the breakfast served is pretty normal for a 5h flight, on a US airline in economy it's a real treat.
    I had the same cabin on a flight from CDG to EWR and it was indeed confortable.
  • Comment 438014 by
    Jett Tyler GOLD AUTHOR 361 Comments
    Found the legroom surprisingly good. DL deffo gets my vouch if I was asked to recommend for a trans-con flight.
  • Comment 438100 by
    757Fan 632 Comments
    Thanks for sharing. Was the bagel breakfast free? Or was that from the BOB menu? I heard recently Delta doesn't charge any longer for cross-country flights and so wasn't sure.
  • Comment 438221 by
    KévinDC TEAM SILVER 6739 Comments
    Hi Jett, thanks for sharing this new report. This is yet another data point that shows Delta is leading the US Legacy carriers when it comes to the passenger experience, in Y anyway. This old bird looks fresh and new--long live the 757! Also, it's encouraging to see free meal service coming back to domestic flying, even if it's just on transcons. I think we're seeing one of the benefits of so much consolidation in the US airline industry: with so few full service carriers left (if you can even call them that), and prices generally the same between the US3 on any given route on which they compete, they are now having to distinguish themselves on service and experience, which had been going down the toilet since 2001. It's nice to see evidence of service improvements!
    • Comment 438409 by
      Jett Tyler GOLD AUTHOR 361 Comments
      Had a great time flying DL. Did 4 flights and enjoyed all of them.
      Did this flight twice and got the Skyteam 757 on my second journey.
      American wasn't too bad- that report will drop in a month or so...
  • Comment 568527 by
    flyLWA 32 Comments
    I'm impressed by the catering offered in economy, big change from my last transcon three years ago, where I was only offered a pretzel bag.
    Thanks for sharing!

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