**#GreyhoundInTheAir!!**  **My last few flights on #DeltaAirlines have become less than stellar! In the wake of #Spirit discontinuing services, for passengers traveling in America and beyond**  **choices have been ridiculously limited!** 

**For MANY years I have been able to take a Non-Stop (2 hr 50 minute) flight from Tampa to Chicago and Detroit my home towns on #SpiritAirways often times for less than $100 ROUND TRIP! I truly NEVER had a problem with Spirit ! I knew the rules! Pack light or pay extra. For flights less than 3 hours Spirit was my go to! Especially after the airline purchased brand new planes , even staff were given new uniforms to wear! They were actually climbing up the airline “food chain”.** 

**I had a great thing going with Spirit even purchasing my flights directly at the airport counter which at the time only Spirit and Frontier allowed for a deep discount versus  purchasing the tickets online would cost!** 

**Now that Spirit is gone Frontier airlines had the audacity to charge over $400 for a round trip ticket to Chicago (again a flight which should be less than 3 hours) on top of that, I couldn’t find a direct flight with any other airline that made economic sense!?!?** 

**I settled on 2 round trip tickets with Delta, for $400 each**  **, which required a layover in Atlanta!?!?! A flight which for years only took 3 hours had now become FIVE with the added and unnecessary layover???** 

**This was a 5am flight that cut so close on the layover in the BUSIEST AIRPORT in the world we almost missed our connecting flight which was 5 gates away requiring a train ride!**

 **Once settling in on the plane I immediately noticed how FILTHY it was!! There was black MOLD on the over head bins, mold, dirt and scratches on the aisle ceiling and worse when the air came on it smelled like burning newspaper!!!! My chest immediately became tight on top of me already having compromised lung capacity needless to say I was miserable and could not wait to disembark the aircraft!!! Even one of the bathrooms was shut down for use because there was a sink malfunction causing it to overflow?!?** 

**Not to mention Delta overbooked the flight requiring passengers to CHECK bags totaling over 30 bags! MINE happened to be one of them. My SMALL CARRY ON BAG which has traveled around the world with me , with all the collectible stickers to match which mind you I had absolutely NO INTENTION of putting through the**  **rigoirous**  **process of baggage check in!! THIRTY bags that Delta did not charge passengers for so why offer overhead storage in the first place??**  Especially when there was still room on the plane?? 

**Lastly the plane we were on should be retired immediately!! As we were lifting off the rattling and noise was insane!! A flight I was on in Egypt wasn’t even that bad!! I can’t remember EVER being on a plane in America which was so extremely loud and shaky???**  

**This was beyond a horrible experience for a flight which should have been short and painless?? What are consumers options now?? Have airlines become so beside themselves that quality customer**  **service**  **is at an all time low?? I mean, you couldn’t give me a free flight on Frontier and now that Spirit is gone they have the nerve to over charge for a subpar airline all while other airlines have simply said the hell with trying to win customers?!?!**   


**On a flight to Japan in December Delta’s lounge (in Atlanta go figure) had a line out the door! It wasn’t even appealing to visit?!?! Where’s the exclusivity Delta has always prided itself on?? How do you justify charging** 

**As a world traveler, traveling used to be FUN!! This experience was anything but. 😩**

Delta Airlines is the new Greyhound in the air!