'Pre-Boarding' and 'First Class' will soon be a thing of the past for Delta Air Lines.
Delta Air Lines flyers will soon board its planes in a new way that might remind them of the past. Delta Air Lines flyers will soon board its planes in a new way that might remind them of the past.
For example, "Pre-Boarding" and "First Class" categories will be called zone 1, the "Comfort+" category is being changed to zone 3 and the "Main Cabin" groups will now be grouped in zones 5 through 7, before ending with "Basic Economy" now in zone 8. "Zone boarding, an aviation standard for decades, will soon be a thing of the past for Delta customers," the airline said in a 2018 release. It also expanded the number of boarding groups to "encourage fewer customers to line up in the gate area at any one time."Of course, any flyer knows that boarding is usually a chaotic process that no US carrier has exactly nailed down.
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