Delta Fares

How do I track an in-air Delta flight? There is a way from the Delta.com site to see a map that shows a little plane flying and you can see how close it is to its destination. I've done this before but for the life of me cannot figure out how to do it today. Help anyone?

when you want to track a flight (online), i.e. Delta 22 from ATL to CDG, and there is written that the "speed"? ..... is scheduled at 468 kts, what is meant by "speed" there... I would say TAS, however, it could also be GS...What say you?

Can you track United Airlines flights? Last year I was able to keep track of my boyfriend's flight on Delta airlines by going on the website and typing in the flight number. It gave me the exact time of take-off, where the plane currently was on a map, and when the plane was scheduled to land. Is that available for United Airlines flights too? Yeah I'm a stalker because I want to know where my boyfriend's flight is as he travels halfway around the world on three different planes so I know when to pick him up at the airport in case of delays/cancellations. Seriously.

Anybody know the name of the rude boy remix that was on a delta air line flight? Hi, i was recently on a delta flight, and i listened to music in my personal head set, on a track that was called ''party in the sky'' or something like that, and they had a cool rude boy remix. If anybody knows the name of this, or could give me some popular remix's of the song that might be it it would be helpful and appreciated. Thank you :) oh and it was just rhianna, no other singers.. easy ten.

Why aren't airlines required to track or report medical incidents? Delta: Body Of Woman, 61, Found In Plane Bathroom ATLANTA - Flight attendants discovered the body of a 61-year-old woman in the restroom of a plane shortly before the flight landed in Atlanta Wednesday morning, a spokeswoman for the airline said. It was unclear how Michaele O'Neil Carnahan died, and how long she was in the restroom. The crew on the Los Angeles-to-Atlanta flight noticed the restroom was occupied on final approach, just before Flight 950 touched down at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport at 5:51 a.m., spokeswoman Keyra Johnson said. Atlanta police were notified and met the plane at the gate, Johnson said. "Delta extends its condolences to the family and commends our flight crew and medical professionals onboard who handled this incident with the utmost professionalism and respect for which they are known," spokeswoman Betsy Talton wrote in an e-mail. The body was taken to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab in suburban Atlanta for an autopsy scheduled for Thursday, said GBI spokesman John Bankhead. Authorities were awaiting the results to determine the cause of death, Bankhead said. Bankhead said Carnahan was on her way from her home in Ventura, Calif., to Florida for a wedding. Atlanta police stationed at the airport respond to calls about dead bodies on airplanes a couple of times a year, said Officer Eric Schwartz, a police spokesman. Talton said the situation was rare, but flight crews are trained to handle "a number of situations on board." Airlines are not required to track or report the medical incidents they handle, so an exact tally of in-flight deaths is hard to determine. MedAire, an Arizona-based company that staffs doctors on the ground to advise flight crews in a medical emergency, counted 89 deaths for the flights they handled in 2006, which represents about one-third of the world's commercial flights. If the death rate is similar for the rest of the flights, annual deaths on airplanes could exceed 260. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080730/ap_on_re_us/delta_body_found;_ylt=AuyhYhcQNCdAadNDXYlEuLgDW7oF

Have you heard the "Conspiracy Theory" that the military didn't scramble fighter's in response to 9/11? No Stand-Down Order CLAIM: No fighter jets were scrambled from any of the 28 Air Force bases within close range of the four hijacked flights. "On 11 September Andrews had two squadrons of fighter jets with the job of protecting the skies over Washington D.C.," says the Web site emperors-clothes.com. "They failed to do their job." "There is only one explanation for this," writes Mark R. Elsis of StandDown.net. "Our Air Force was ordered to Stand Down on 9/11." FACT: On 9/11 there were only 14 fighter jets on alert in the contiguous 48 states. No computer network or alarm automatically alerted the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) of missing planes. "They [civilian Air Traffic Control, or ATC] had to pick up the phone and literally dial us," says Maj. Douglas Martin, public affairs officer for NORAD. Boston Center, one of 22 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regional ATC facilities, called NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) three times: at 8:37 am EST to inform NEADS that Flight 11 was hijacked; at 9:21 am to inform the agency, mistakenly, that Flight 11 was headed for Washington (the plane had hit the North Tower 35 minutes earlier); and at 9:41 am to (erroneously) identify Delta Air Lines Flight 1989 from Boston as a possible hijacking. The New York ATC called NEADS at 9:03 am to report that United Flight 175 had been hijacked--the same time the plane slammed into the South Tower. Within minutes of that first call from Boston Center, NEADS scrambled two F-15s from Otis Air Force Base in Falmouth, Mass., and three F-16s from Langley Air National Guard Base in Hampton, Va. None of the fighters got anywhere near the pirated planes. Why couldn't ATC find the hijacked flights? When the hijackers turned off the planes' transponders, which broadcast identifying signals, ATC had to search 4500 identical radar blips crisscrossing some of the country's busiest air corridors. And NORAD's sophisticated radar? It ringed the continent, looking outward for threats, not inward. "It was like a doughnut," Martin says. "There was no coverage in the middle." Pre-9/11, flights originating in the States were not seen as threats and NORAD wasn't prepared to track them. Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com