Woke up this morning at 4:30am to my cell phone ringing. It was Delta letting me know that my 7:30am flight was canceled. Delta also let me know that I had already been re-booked on the 7:30am flight.
It didn't really make sense. Had they booked me on a different airline? I know that US Airways has a flight at about the same time or was it a connecting flight? I thought one of the messages said the arrival time was 1:0-something.
Come to find out it was a 7:30am Delta direct flight from Minneapolis to Charlotte landing at 10:30am Charlotte time...a half hour earlier than the regularly scheduled flight. I'm guessing that the difference is the first flight is operated by Compass for Delta and the revised flight is operated by Delta itself.
The best thing about the change is the revised flight is a bigger plane. I got moved closer to the front and on the aisle and a row by myself.
Because of the 4:30 wake up call, I got to the airport even earlier than last week. The security lines were even worse which seems to indicate that being early does not pay off. The non-priority line actually looked shorter so I thought I'd conduct an experiment.
I picked a guy with an orange shirt in the priority line to see which one of us got through security first. He did. The non-priority maze was longer and the id checkers - one for priority and one for non-priority - would sometimes let the priority person go through the non-priority check.
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