The only thing I don't like about DL is their RJs. I prefer mainline Delta over Delta Connection. Where I live, DL used to be completely mainline, until June 1999, when they added RJs. Now its always a toss up on what you get. DL will sometimes have more mainline than RJ's, and other times they will be about equal. I miss having mainline only in DAB.
As for on time performance...I do feel that they have some issues with this, but who doesn't? I flew DL three times this year already and am flying them one more time before the end of the year. I only had a problem one time when it came to on time performance and one time when it came to losing baggage, totaling two times with baggage problems and I have been flying Delta since the early 1990's.
I think that most of the delays are not Delta's fault. They are ATC's. Delta really didn't think very clearly when they made a hub in ATL in my opinion. There is almost always something wrong in ATL weatherwise. Since I fly from DAB a lot, I go through ATL almost all the time (exception from a few times flying from MCO). But BWI also has those problems and I overnighted there once going from JAX-BWI-ISP. That was Southwest, which brings me back to the fact that all airlines are prone to delay. Now, if you fly from LGA, you will almost always be delayed no matter what airline, because they only use one runway for take off and the intersecting runway for landing. Take off lines at LGA have literally extended from the end of Runway 31 to the other end at Runway 13!! Just saying that it isn't always the airlines.
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