Note about layover hotels: The layover hotel info
IS STILL AVAILABLE in a couple of locations
including Inflight (IFS) section of Delta net. Login to
DeltaNetDepartmentsIFSHotels.
Sent: Tuesday, February
09, 2016 2:47 PM
Subject: Delta prepares to
go paperless; suspends some ZED and ID travel agreements March 1
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February 8, 2016
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Delta will go paperless for both revenue and nonrevenue tickets effective June 1 to help reduce costs, streamline booking, improve travel experience and to be in compliance with IATA resolutions to eliminate paper tickets.
This change means that Delta will no longer issue or accept paper tickets – only electronic ones – for travel on or beyond June 1.
Delta currently maintains electronic ZED and ID travel agreements for its employees with airlines using the online myIDTravel platform, a platform endorsed by the ZED travel community which Delta implemented in 2011.
Delta advised all of its airline partners in 2012 that their use of this platform would be required in order to continue interline agreements with them. In the four years since, several airlines have elected not to adopt this electronic platform and instead continue to require Delta pass riders to use paper tickets for travel.
Starting March 1, Delta will suspend its ZED and ID travel agreements with these “paper only” airlines.
What this means:
- The last date that employees may purchase a paper ZED or ID ticket for nonrev travel on an affected airline is Feb. 29.
- The last date that employees may travel on a paper ZED or ID ticket on an affected airline is May 31.
In the meantime, Delta employees can continue to take advantage of a wide variety of nonrev travel options provided through electronic ZED and ID travel agreements with over 125 other carriers, a list of which can be found on the Other Airline Travel page of the Pass Travel site of DeltaNet.
“Paper only” carriers with whom ZED and ID travel agreements will be suspended include:
- Aeroflot (SU)
- Aeromar (VW)
- Air Serbia (JU)
- Air Seychelles (HM)
- EgyptAir (MS)
- Japan Airlines (JL)
- Korean Air (KE)
- LAN Airlines (LA)
- Mandarin Airlines (AE)
- Montenegro Airlines (YM)
- PenAir (KS)
- Royal Air Maroc (AT)
- Royal Jordanian (RJ)
- TAROM (RO)
Employees who have paper tickets they cannot use before May 31 can find information about requesting a refund for their purchase on the Ticketing and Refunds page on the Pass Travel site of DeltaNet.
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Sent: Tuesday, February
09, 2016 2:43 PM
Subject: Delta to offer
enhanced Pass Travel on Virgin Atlantic flights
Delta to offer enhanced Pass Travel on Virgin Atlantic flights
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February 8, 2016
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Delta is making additional improvements to the nonrev travel program shared with its trans-Atlantic joint venture partner Virgin Atlantic Airways.
Effective Feb. 22, Delta employees, retirees and eligible family members will travel on the entire Virgin Atlantic network free of charge – only international taxes and fees will apply. This represents the elimination of the current £13 (or approximately $21.00) per segment charge currently in place. Virgin Atlantic employees will have similar privileges on all Delta flights.
When traveling on Virgin Atlantic, Delta employees are placed on a higher boarding priority for the economy cabin. The agreement places Delta nonrevs just after Virgin Atlantic nonrevs but ahead of all other Virgin Atlantic codeshare and interline partners. Employees will continue to obtain standby tickets and list for Virgin Atlantic flights through TravelNet and the myIDTravel site.
Tickets purchased prior to Feb. 22 can be refunded on the
MyIDTravel website accessible via TravelNet.
Jon
J Maynard
President Yellowbird Chapter
of Delta Pioneers
2nd Vice President of Delta
National Pioneers
Delta Employee and
Retiree Care Fund: Director for Retirees
(H) 121 Tremont St #
212, Brighton, MA 02135
(H) 617.787.2620
Carol’s recent trip to China:
From: Carol
Date: 2/23/2016 12:12:15 AM
To: Mark Sztanyo
Subject: Re: Welcome Back
...we traveled to China arriving on their New Year's Eve
Feb. 7th (lunar year 2016 is the year of the monkey)...first stop
Shanghai, next stop Qingdao, then Xi'an where we toured the Qin Terracotta
figures factory and the Museum of the First Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses,
we returned home via Seoul, S. Korea. The Terracotta Army was discovered
in 1974 by farmers digging a well... this Mausoleum was an amazing find!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army
Of course this time of year is off season, yet there were lots
of people milling around and celebrating...lots of fireworks! We got
business class on DL into Shanghai and out of Seoul which was very nice.
A visa is required for China along with passport (passport must have at least
one year validity left...if less than a year left on passport then you must
renew passport. Cost aprox $240 for visa.)
I visited my husband's son in Qingdao...Eric is a Captain for
Scoot Air based out of Singapore. http://www.flyscoot.com/index.php/en/
(Scoot is a long-haul low-cost carrier that began service in 2012)
Good trip but always good to come home!
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