28 Oct 05 So long Song, we hardly knew you!
Recently when flying I have been doing nearly anything I could to get on a Song flight. With Northwest Airline miles, I can fly on Delta (parent company of Song) company planes and still earn miles.
Song airline was considered a “discount” carrier, but had the best service I’ve ever had on a plane. They gave you FOR FREE headphones for the flight. They even served Panera products and had a very extensive menu for an airflight. Every seat has a touchscreen tv with DirectTv, movies, free mp3’s, video games, and even a trivia game you play with others on the plane to see who gets the highest score. Man I love that game. I totally 0wn3d the guy in 13B.
Well looks like they are being absorbed back into Delta [read details].
This puzzles me somewhat.
In the interim, Delta plans to include first-class service on Song’s 48 planes in an attempt to make the flights more attractive to business travelers
Okay I understand that part, but what about this:
The financially-strapped parent company also plans to convert an additional 50-plus Delta aircraft to two-class Song service and expand in-flight entertainment on Song flights
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They are spending money and including MORE services on Song flights until the close down flights in May 2006? Strange, seems sort of counterintuitive. Oh well.
Maybe I can get one more flight out of them before they close. I’m flying NWA to the expo, so need to plan a trip before May 2006. Got any suggestions for destinations that I haven’t been to yet?
You know, I took Song for the first time 2 weeks ago – a direct flight from Tampa to LA…. I’ve flown that route on four other carriers – Southwest, US Air(ways), America West and American… (US and America West were before 9/11 and the others both before and after) Song ranked next to last out of those four (with America West being the worst – like usual).
The curbside checking agents tried to divert me to automated machines that I don’t have the card for (and that was Tampa). Curbside checkin that was promised in AL wasn’t there. The boarding agents in both Tampa and LA weren’t very helpful when I told them I was hearing impaired and I needed some help knwoing when to board (I didn’t know about the zones and didn’t know when I would board).
The in-flight TV was nice, the attendants however, seemed to be trying to get their quota on food sales and were overbearing.
It was an experience I didn’t plan on having again and I’m not exactly sad to hear the news Song is going the way of the Do-do. In the future I plan on flying AA or Southwest again as those were better experiences (even with Southwest’s Wal-Mart like standards) than the rest.
I took that same flight on my trip to LA a few months back on Song.
I tend to be very independant when I travel and don’t want to have to wait in the lines. I always check-in online before I arrive, and RARELY travel with baggage to check.
Infact the flight back was the absolute best flight I’ve ever taken in my entire life. Everyone was very social. I met two beautiful women coming back from Hawaii back to Miami, a guy wearing a full suit of armor on the plane, and a few other people.
The flight attendents ended up sitting down with us and we all had a big conversation going. It was unlike any other flight I’ve ever taken.
As for the food, I got a box of Pringles once and all of the other times, I went without food. They didn’t seem pushy to me. I guess it’s all in the individual experience.
I thinkn what made me like Song was the extras inflight. Jetblue is the only airline I know that offers as much as Song does.