In total, there are 28 suites in the Delta One cabin, down significantly from the 37 seats that the old business cabin featured.
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Seats are 22 to 24 inches wide and 77 to 78 inches when fully flat, or up to six feet, five inches. The highlight, of course, is the Delta One Suite itself, and it looks just as good on the Triple Seven as it does on the A350, though Delta kept the overhead bins in the center section, which does make the cabin feel less spacious - and certainly older - than the A350. If you’re familiar with Delta’s A350 cabin, the new 777 interior shouldn’t be a shock to you.
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It seems that the airline is content with the lounge in its current state and prefers to spruce it up rather than give it the full overhaul I believe it needs. Note that the center area of the Sk圜lub is undergoing a minor renovation - Delta says that it’s working on a “new food buffet experience,” which should be coming soon. I do think it’s time that Delta make an effort to catch up with its domestic competition on the lounge front, especially considering the prices it charges (both cash and award) for premium-class tickets. It simply isn’t up to the standards set by both American and United in terms of an international business-class lounge at a major hub airport.
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My impressions of the lounge have remained largely the same - it’s a very large space with lots of seating options and self-serve bar (a perk in my opinion), but showing its age and clearly from the days when Northwest Airlines was the dominant carrier in Detroit. I arrived at DTW’s A concourse and made my way to the Sk圜lub in the center of the concourse, a lounge I’ve visited many times. YYZ participates in the US preclearance program, meaning that I cleared US customs before I got on my flight, and it landed in Detroit as a domestic flight - a huge convenience considering that I didn’t have a ton of time to make the connection. I checked-in on Delta’s app the night before my flight and arrived at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport about two hours before my flight to DTW was scheduled to depart. While it’s rare that you’ll find reasonable redemption rates for routes like these, we have seen flights between some of Delta’s hubs and Asia for as little as 85,000 SkyMiles one-way. We paid a total of $2,764 for the ticket, with The Business Centurion® Card from American Express so we could take advantage of the card’s 50% points rebate perk, which has continued to provide the TPG team with excellent value when traveling for work.Īs this was a paid ticket, I also earned SkyMiles for the trip - pretty much immediately after landing in Beijing, I saw the 24,345 redeemable miles, 10,948 Medallion Qualifying Miles (MQMs) and 2,705 Medallion Qualifying Dollars (MQDs) appear in my account.
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This time around, though, I got to ride up front in the Suite, while TPG Editorial Intern Benji Stawski was in Premium Select (stay tuned for his full review).Īwaiting us at the gate was the first and so far only one of Delta’s 18 Boeing 777s converted to the new configuration, a 18-year old bird registered N863DA.Īs is often - read: always - the case, Delta was charging obscene amounts of SkyMiles (like, 300,000 one-way) for this flight in business class, but I was able to find a somewhat reasonable one-way ticket originating in Toronto (YYZ) that connected in DTW before continuing to the Chinese capital on the revamped 777. Naturally, we wanted to catch the aircraft on its first scheduled long-haul flight out of the Detroit hub, on July 2.
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Then, it’ll move to different routes - presumably routes that are already operated by a 777. Initially, the aircraft will be operating Delta’s daily flight between DTW and Beijing (PEK), alternating with the A350 every other day. TPG gave the Suite a good review when he and I flew the inaugural A350 flight last year ( I was close behind in Premium Select, Delta’s new premium economy class), and we’ve been eager ever since to see the new cabin roll out to the carrier’s fleet of Boeing 777s, which featured a decidedly dated business-class product.