In 2024, Delta Air Lines launched a partnership with Italian fashion brand Missoni, initially for amenity kits. That partnership is now being expanded, with the introduction of new bedding.
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Lovely, but the seats on the A330-300, A330-200, B767-300ER, and B767-400ER in Delta One are crap. Window dressing is all this is.
“We’ve never seen a US carrier partner with a fashion brand on Missoni’s level”
B&O (Headphones on AA) is kind of a high-end fashion brand as well 😉
Wonder when the trans-cons (JFK to LAX / SFO and v.v., and DCA-LAX and v.v.) will get it.
Agreed. Delta isn’t interested in truly offering a better product, they only want to perceive to. They still have 767-300s and older A330s with 10” LCD monitors in Delta One.
"They still have 767-300s and older A330s with 10” LCD monitors in Delta One."
Don't forget the 757s out of DCA in 2x2 configuration.
The mattress pads that are coming for transatlantic flights will significantly upgrade the experience.
They do wonders in improving the comfort on transpacific flights.
Delta already operates more than 60 A330-900s and 359s with Delta One Suites and that number will grow to more than six dozen aircraft by the end of the year.
AA and UA at best will have less than 10 aircraft with suites by the end of the year.
Unlike UA, DL is retiring 767s.
as for the comments about aircraft types, DL is operating less than 20% of its TATL flights this summer on the 767-300; the vast majority of that fleet is flying domestic flights including to Hawaii.
Every seat on Delta's widebody fleet will have direct aisle access in business class within a couple months when the 35Ls are fully converted.
Unlike AA and UA, DL has no 10 abreast 777s or 9 abreast 787s.
and DL's A330-300s will be converted to suites, likely with a version of the new generation suite which will be on the A350-1000s
So my July A350 flights to and from Seoul in D1 likely won't have these, but the 6.5 hour junk A330s to Dublin likely will. Sigh. Interesting partnership, especially considering Missoni is an Italian house.
Indeed, the 767s are retiring and the A330s are getting a facelift...but that's not for some time. Flying one of those ancient A330s from CDG to MSP last month, I was truly shocked by the state of it, especially after flying a VS A350 over (I flew into LHR, out of CDG on this trip) and plenty of DL A350s in the last 12 months. It's great to see DL making plans to spruce up its fleet and introduce new aircrafts, but it can't come quickly enough IMHO. Don't even get me started on the 717s...
That would be interesting to see what improvement the A330-300 and A350K Suites will have.
Amenity kits look nice. However just flew JFK-LAX in D1 on a 764. The seat/cabin *looked* quite nice (especially compared to the 763), but wow what an uncomfortable seat. The pleather is not breathable and the seat is rock hard. Good IFE and service though!
no airline can upgrade a fleet of nearly 1000 aircraft overnight but DL is currently retiring more widebodies and replacing them w/ new generation aircraft than any other US airline.
AA retired a bunch of aircraft during the pandemic but is not retiring anything now. They have no plans to refurbish their 777-200ERs.
UA hasn't retired any widebody aircraft but also has no plans so far to add its suite product to any existing widebodies - just put it on new delivery aircraft.
DL's 767-300ER is supposed to be out of international service in 3 years max and gone from the fleet by the end of the decade - when DL will easily have over 125 widebodies with suites and probably closer to 150 aircraft.
Even if UA has that many suite-equipped aircraft by 2030, and it is highly unlikely they will, the percentage of DL's widebodies w/ suites will be far higher.
the exLatam A350-900 are moving through mods pretty quickly and then the first 18 or so original batch of DL 359s will be upgraded to the 40 seat Delta one configuration - so the 333s could start being converted by fall of 2026.
remember that the 717s were brought in as replacements for 50 seat RJs of which DL has no more operating. the 717 is a competitive aircraft with other airline RJs, including large RJs. DL's 717s and large RJs will have high speed free WiFi by the end of the year which will be competitive.
The 767 fleet should be well and truly retired by now. This goes for United, too.
a suite is what customers expect for a business class product.
DL has them in spades. AA has one or two in service and another half dozen or so coming this year and is retrofitting their 777Ws.
UA just jumped on the bandwagon and hopes it might have a couple widebodies w/ suites by the end of the year and has no plans to retrofit its existing aircraft.
“The mattress pads that are coming for transatlantic flights will significantly upgrade the experience.
They do wonders in improving the comfort on transpacific flights.”
They certainly do! United has had them for years! 😉
does anyone have any actual confirmation that Delta is giving us a brand new hard product for the D1 on the a350-1000? really hoping they pick the safran unity seat that japan airlines has. and subsequently, put those safran unity seats on the a330s when you refurbish them lol
Is the Missoni bedding going to be stained with the blood of Palestinians given Delta's complicity in abetting Israel's genocide in Gaza?
I think the soft product in most cases is the most important. Most airlines now have lie flat seats. But you have a low quality pillow, duvet and food. People will try other carriers. Heck look at UA, AA and AS they will not have the same hard product as their premium business product. They have to do better in their soft product to make people want to fly them.
"a suite is what customers expect for a business class product."
lmao
not a delta product then.
Delta: "we have some crappy beds. Some without aisle access. Some you'll think are from the 90s. Some with plastic doors we shut and don't shut. And some planes without any wifi whatsoever"
#Delta
With DL trying to catch up with the highly rated bedding from UA, I am very surprised that a cool gel pillow was not introduced.
Would be cool if these are loaded on my JFK-GRU flight in mid August, but it might be cutting it too close. They’re operating the A330-900neo with the D1 suites on this route so I’m assuming it’s a lucrative route for DL, but I don’t know the data.
I’m not sure if all of the new bedding can make up for the overall experience on Delta. Last year we flew Delta One JFK-CDG, and the reverse. The food was meh, the service was mixed (some flight attendants get it but too many don’t), and the A330 (don’t recall the model) was fine. This April we flew on Air France, in business, DTW-CDG and CDG-BOS - TPA origin and destination - and the huge difference was in the flight attendants and secondly in the food. Both were superb. The outgoing was a 777-300, long in the tooth, and the incoming was a A350-900, superbly new in appearance. The Air France flight crews made up for the old 777. Moral of the story, keep the Delta Missoni bedding and give me the AF flight attendants and the food.
They just did a massive and expensive refresh of current seats
I doubt they will do something radical or new in the A350-1000
Tim, you make some interesting points
But I doubt we will see anything radical with Delta One anytime soon. Delta won't go spending again on new seats after the expensive refresh on Delta One.
The A330CEO will likely get seats equivalent to the A330NEO.
The A350-1000 won't be different from the A350-900
Missoni has nothing to do with Delta's actions in Israel. They are simply collaborating with many airlines, and Delta is just one of them.