While we pull luggage along Metro Airport's concourses or aboard the Skytrain, some Delta VIPs (very important passengers) now can be chauffeured in Porsche sedans on the tarmac to catch a connecting flight.
The airline expands a black car service for elite fliers this month to three airports, including Detroit's.
The perk began in Atlanta three years ago and become available in Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St. Paul and New York last year, a media release says Monday. A video is below.
During a typical day more than 100 high-value customers are transferred from gate-to-gate at Delta's largest hub in Atlanta.
Transferring select SkyMiles Diamond Medallion customers with Porsche vehicles is just another way that Delta delivers exceptional customer service. . . .
The service cannot be requested or reserved, but is provided to Diamond Medallion customers based on a number of factors including the day's flight operations, connections times between flights for customers and a member's status. Once customers are added to the priority list for the service by Delta's Elite Services team, they are greeted at the aircraft boarding door and escorted with their baggage to an awaiting vehicle and on to their connecting gate.
Just something to think about the next time you trot to make an airport connection.
-- Alan Stamm
