Review: Delta One A330 Dublin To Atlanta

Curious...Is this a seasonal DL flight? I was just in Europe and trying to get back to ATL and I don't remember seeing this as an option.

@JR: Yes, it's seasonal! Must've ended within the last few weeks, because I took it last month.

Great review.

I'm always deeply suspicious when food items are placed in inverted commas (you'd call those "quote marks"). Is it "couscous" or isn't it?

Hot selfie. I'll be stalking you now. You've had fair warning. 😉

I take the A330 to and from Europe once a month on Delta One. My impression is the same as yours. It is a fine product for 9 hours but not the best. Having Wi-Fi during the entire flights is a big plus. The food is not that bad but since they do not change the menus every month (they have Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter) I end up eating the same food more than once. What is a shame is their wine selection. Nothing you can't find at your local liquor store for less than $20/bottle. When you pay over $7k for a ticket I would expect a better selection.

Thanks so much for the review, Andrew! I've never flown Delta One but am quite familiar with United Polaris. I love the Polaris bedding but it seems like Delta's bedding is great also. How do they compare? Does Delta also offer a mattress pad?

@BrooklynBoy: No, Delta Ones does not offer a mattress pad. They have a really nice well padded blanket/comforter and a great pillow. If the cabin is not full I usually get another comforter and use it as a mattress pad for my seat.

Andrew, don't worry about the crying. That happens to me on nearly every airplane movie I watch. I'm not sure I believe the premise of this article, but maybe:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/why-we-cry-on-planes/280143/

I've always found the built in IFE's to have huge selections (maybe not the biggest of any airline ever, but still they have a ton of movies). Delta Studio always seems to just have a handful of options.

@Garrett -- Delta's AVOD systems vary across aircraft types, so it's not possible to make a blanket statement about the breadth of Delta Studio options. But even their most limited configuration, as found on 737s, offers at least a few dozen feature-length films plus TV shows and the like. So far more than a "handful."

Factual clarification: Delta does NOT serve champagne as a pre-departure beverage. It is always cheap Spanish sparkling wine (aka cava) and it would be ILLEGAL in Dublin, being part of the Republic of Ireland, for Delta to call that sparkling wine "champagne." Unfortunately, Delta flight attendants -- at least most of them -- are not informed enough to be honest with passengers that they are not drinking champagne. Worse yet, many flight attendants don't open the real champagne in-flight and instead continue serving the cava.

How long has Delta One been out? Was this an upgrade to C like United did with Polaris? Or they just renamed it but no hard product upgrade?

I don't fly DL often, that's why I ask.

I cried during Lion also 🙂

So is it a requirement to be able to write on this blog that you must ALWAYS order pretzel bread with your meal?? Always the case with Lucky.....and now you Andrew?? 🙂

Delta One as a name is 3-4 years old, but the basic product with lie-flat seats has been on the market since 2009. It wasn't until 2013-ish that every longhaul aircraft had the product. The soft product like amenity kit, food and beverage and in-flight entertainment has changed since 2009.

The food on American airlines always looks like crap. That meal looks like an economy meal on JAL (excluding the ice cream).

Great review! Delta One is fine. The food is usual Legacy carrier mediocre. I never have any problem finding a film or 3 to watch (and also loved/wept at Lion Ravi Patel is so cute...). Not a fan of the seat I know I'm suppose to be impressed cuz it's leather (ugly blue quilted leather) but I find them uncomfortable, as you pointed out the bedding helps. All in all I usually only fly them on my hubby's points so who am I to complain? A bed in the sky is a luxury and if it flies direct then perfect. Delta strikes me as being all about business and tho I find the staff mostly great their fleet is ancient and worn and the new 350 isn't going to be flying out of NYC any time soon. Oh and @FNT delta diamond I'm pretty sure on my last delta flight they showed me the bottle o champagne and poured from it at my seat. Tho whose to say they didn't funnel Cava into a fancy bottle. Truth be told I kind of like Cava 😉

Ha Ha Ha, c rying over a film, yes I've done that a few times, Dogs life??, about the dog that dies, and comes back in another breed to owner? I pretended something was in my eye, the flight attendant bought water and tissues, what a wimp i was,

@Jim, Delta One used to be called BusinessElite (like 2009-2015).

@Andrew, did you expect the crying comment would elicit the most comments? Always appreciate your humor, btw.

PS Are you single? 🙂

thanks for the update...too bad atl to dublin is gone for now!!need it for january...

Very nice Andrew! Thank you.