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This is the third installment of the “Praise The Air Travel Providers” series, in which you are invited to write up any praise and / or good experiences you have had with Delta Airlines.
You can see prior praise-oriented posts here.

Hi there. This is the second in a series of posts that provide a public space to air complaints about, well, airlines. So, if you have a complaint about Delta Airlines and their ticketing policy, in-flight service, prices, or anything else, post your story here.

The Consumerist blog figured out that while airlines may lie and waffle on the reasons your flight is delayed, they tell the truth to their cargo clients. And they also have a special website that tells what the reason for the delays are, for those cargo-fare folk. These are the cargo websites for the major […]

A deep dark cloud rained bad news on the airline industry this week. Note: I link to CNN stories here because they don’t go into archive and don’t get deleted after two weeks. To recap:

• More than a hundred thousand passengers get stranded at Heathrow after a British Airways strike (article)
• The New York Times reports that airport delays are at the worst since 2000 (article)
• Airplane fuel is now an issue, prompting the majors to raise fares and raising the possibility of big problems on the tarmac (article, article)
• Delta and Independence Air share more bad news about potential bankruptcy (article, article)
• CNN investigates U.S. airport security for three months and finds lots of problems, then decides to pile on and release the news this week (swell move, guys) (article)

Hope this week is better, people.

Sunday Update: Plane crashes in Greece, killing all 128 on board (article). Not a good start for the week.