Great report. Your TPA experience leaves me with similar questions. Walter DCA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis W Zeuch" <DZTOPS@aol.com> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> > Tus Dfw on RJ Canadair 50 seater (first time) on time and damn good > could not stand upright in cabin, and shoulders hit overhead rack when > walking down isle but once seated---NOT BAD, just as comfortable as a > B737/B757 on DL or CO. V ery surprised and happy with the flight-nice F/A > and far better service and attitude than the regular Delta flights to come. > DFW to TPA DL757 --6 rows of F class seats and Y starts at row 20---looks > like an old streched DC8 if you look back. Why so many F seats? All > freebies-what a bunch. 100% full on all flights and looking for volunteers to > get off. > Same DL B757 cattlecar back. on both DL flights got 1 glass water and bag > pretzlles on 2 hour lunch flight (4 flight attendants all stood in galley > eating and chatting for one hour and fifteen minutes-a fifth sat and read a > book) Since no meal servvice they have absolutely nothing to do....cant see > this going on for to much longer. > > All flights on time and all bags arrived but departure from Tampa was a > disaster. > Arrived at airport 4 hours prior to departure-just made it. > 30 min at DL tkt counter-good job all around but then had mile long line for > C concourse stopped dead for 3 hours ??? why?? dont know but finally they > started moving and let people in groups of 10 onto a train to the next > terminal where 1 REPEAT ONE X-Ray machine was screening passengers for all > the Delta flights. > What a mess and DL has to bear some responsibility for this crap=they just > dont wanna spend any money at all and it is making many passengers say > ';never gonna fly again until they fix this security mess'[.