I&#x27;ve used it when ATL shut down.  I don&#x27;t know if there&#x27;s a way Delta&#x27;s routes can go to shit more than losing ATL and diverting flights to other entirely different airports.<p>And you&#x27;re right.  I am describing the normal access anyone can get.  That&#x27;s the point, elite status offerings just don&#x27;t do as much as most people seem to think.<p>I don&#x27;t know why every flier with status on this thread wants to insist to me that &quot;it&#x27;s worthless when it all goes to shit&quot; when it clearly isn&#x27;t.  But I&#x27;m not surprised, 90% of fliers I know with elite status are incentivized to think they&#x27;re getting something out of it that regular people can&#x27;t access, even though they&#x27;re saying things like how awesome it is to be able to call a phone number.  Gag me with a stick, I&#x27;d rather use an app.<p>Y&#x27;all got it pretty bad.<p>(I have status sometimes too.  It&#x27;s nice when I have it, but I don&#x27;t and won&#x27;t do anything extra to get it, for me, flying without status is not that much different.  It&#x27;s certainly not worth being loyal to a domestic airline.  The airlines we have in this country just suck.  If I lived in SG or JP or even ID I&#x27;d totally go ahead and give some loyalty to an airline, SQ, ANA and Garuda are all great.)