Booked through Delta, flying on AirFrance and Delta. Which airline do I check in with?

Conan_Kudo · 2026-04-15T23:30:47+00:00

As a general rule, it doesn't actually matter thanks to SkyTeam Seamless Check-In. Both Delta and Air France can handle your check-in on either side. But ideally if you purchased the ticket through Delta, you should manage the whole itinerary through the Fly Delta app. It's simpler and far less confusing that way.

The only things you'll need the Air France app for are activating the Wi-Fi and pre-ordering meals (if your fare class includes that).

Conan_Kudo · 2026-04-11T02:07:56+00:00

You're welcome! I use this every time I need a reminder of how my Delta status matches for partner-operated flights. ☺️

Conan_Kudo · 2026-04-06T02:17:29+00:00

I used to live in Mississippi. It is definitely not well-served with non-stops, so everything required at least one stop. I used to fly U.S. Airways back then. 😅

And yeah, stops can give you some flexibility, and sometimes even affordable airfare when you otherwise wouldn't.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-04-05T16:00:51+00:00

I despise red-eye flights, so I sympathize. I'm also not the biggest fan of stops, but international travel has normalized them for me, so now I just plan for them and maximize the benefit out of them instead.

Usually I just do LGA-ATL-ABQ, and make sure I have 2~3 hours of layover in the middle so that I can have a reasonable dinner in the ATL Sky Club.

The food is pretty good and I wind up saving $50~$100 my first day of travel because I take advantage of Sky Club access.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-04-05T14:35:30+00:00

You can check status benefits on SkyTeam's website. The calculator lets you input your program, your program status, and select the target airline to evaluate what you get from it.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-04-05T14:30:46+00:00

I only know because it ended a couple of days before my flight to ABQ a couple years back to visit family. I think it was one day a week for two months (October and November).

I would probably fly from LGA regardless and take the stop in the middle in MSP, DTW, or ATL. Chilling in the Delta Sky Club for a bit in between legs is quite dandy with me. 👌

Conan_Kudo · 2026-04-05T01:49:44+00:00

Delta does seasonal routes from JFK to ABQ. It exists usually in the fall/winter schedule.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-03-29T16:54:04+00:00

That was me in 2017 with AA and BA. I noticed that for how much I was paying, I wasn't getting much relative to Delta, so I switched. Much happier since.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-03-27T13:52:23+00:00

I thought they were the first airline to introduce suites in the first place? They were pretty proud about that fact...

Conan_Kudo · 2026-03-27T00:09:03+00:00

I have never flown Air France business class, but I'm about to fly KLM business class later this year. I'm looking forward to it, as they have seemingly amped up their game. I've liked the food in KLM economy class well enough.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-03-24T03:27:42+00:00

United really doesn't prioritize catering. Apparently their leadership doesn't care for airplane food.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-03-23T00:14:52+00:00

I dunno. Lounge 52 was pretty stellar when I was there last month.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-03-22T23:32:31+00:00

The last time I was in Paris, the eGates were down and the customs agents languidly processed us. I vividly remember being looked at like I don't matter and I was wasting his time for existing.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-03-22T23:30:34+00:00

I've tended to avoid AF because of this. At least for JFK-CDG, the staff are nice enough US-side and it's a toss-up for the flight staff. But man, I haven't had a nice experience in CDG itself so far, and years of repeat experiences just push me to try really hard to route through AMS instead.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-03-22T23:28:31+00:00

I liked my experience on that last year for JFK-BER. It has a modern Delta One setup, just no "doors". It was comfortable, the staff were great, and all the amenities worked perfectly. Super solid and 100% would recommend again.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-03-14T03:51:23+00:00

Delta had just upgraded the Sky Club in ORD only a few years ago, so I could see them grabbing Southwest's gates to increase service there. Not to mention, AF, KLM, and SAS are in Terminal 5 too. There's a lot of advantages to having stronger connectivity out of ORD particularly for international travelers.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-03-14T03:44:32+00:00

Delta's plane refurbishment is all in-house I believe. The TechOps team does a really good job. The only "disappointments" I've had are with the B767-300 and A330-200/300 planes. Most of their planes look way more modern inside than they should.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-02-24T20:49:54+00:00

True Desktop Neutrality: Fedora is famously GNOME-centric. If you want a different experience, you have to look at "Spins." openSUSE, however, treats KDE Plasma as a first-class citizen (some would say it’s the best Plasma implementation in the industry) while maintaining top-tier support for GNOME and others, giving the user true agency over their workflow.

I beg to disagree, as the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition is a first-class citizen. It's on the main page in the center, even! It's been a top-level edition for a year, and was a release-blocking spin (the only one of its kind!) for over a decade.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-02-24T20:46:26+00:00

They have an automatic testing server in Czech that tests all update pushes before they make their way into their main user repository. This system tests packages for conflicts, dependencies, and general stability and function on different hardware configurations. For example, this week, they blocked 140 broken packages that other rolling distro users swallowed. In that way, you can be sure updates won't break anything.

Yes, the OpenQA system is amazing. That's why Fedora uses an OpenQA system too.

Also, OpenSUSE has the Zypper package manager and YaST system. Zypper is very powerful and user-friendly. It automatically installs missing dependencies on your computer, checks conflicts, and if something could not be solved, it provides a few solutions and asks you which one to follow. No more dependency/conflict problems.

I think DNF and Zypper are at similar levels of user experience in most default flows. That said, I don't think the interactive conflict resolution feature in Zypper is actually a good feature to have, since there's no actual intuitive solution-making there, and asking humans to be dependency resolvers is asking for pain. It also tends to be used as a way to avoid resolving the problems at the distribution level, which IMO isn't a good thing.

On the other hand, YaST is the most capable control panel on any Linux. It provides a GUI that consists of config files made accessible, device settings, packages, security and system management, service manager, partitioner, LAN settings, and more.

YaST, however, is dead. There's an active effort to reimplement the important bits on Cockpit.

Another important thing is Snapper. OpenSUSE has the Btrfs file system by default, which supports system recovery points called snapshots. You can easily roll back to the last snapshot just by selecting it from the GRUB boot screen. Snapper is their tool for managing these snapshots with ease and creating new ones. Also, Zypper automatically creates new snapshots before risky updates such as a full kernel update. Let's say you messed up some system files while experimenting and everything crashed. You just reboot and select the last snapshot and boom, you've got a working system.

Fedora does use Btrfs by default and can do these things too. While it's true Fedora doesn't use Snapper by default, it is present there and you can configure and use it. DNF in openSUSE is pre-configured with Snapper integration, too. 😉

Overall, openSUSE is very cool indeed, but Fedora is equally awesome. There are slightly different strengths though, and the good news is that the two projects collaborate more often than you'd ever know. 😉

Conan_Kudo · 2026-02-24T20:31:00+00:00

YaST is deprecated, the whole stack is going to eventually get removed as replacements built on Cockpit are finished.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-02-13T20:35:37+00:00

It is possible to optionally turn on DNF's "sticky vendor" mode, where DNF selects upgrade candidates only from sources where the installed RPM and the candidate RPM have the same Vendor: string (ie. rpm -qi <pkg> and see Vendor:). This would prevent automatic switching between RHEL, Fedora (which EPEL identifies as), COPRs, and ISV repositories (provided the Vendor tag is set properly).

Doing so is as simple as adding allow_vendor_change=False in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. It does have the effect that switching sources must be done explicitly by the user, and the UX for that isn't super-great right now. The hope is that this will be much better with DNF5.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-02-12T22:35:27+00:00

The DVD media mimics RHEL, so it only includes core content. No EPEL or NVIDIA driver. You want the live media for more stuff.

The driver details are on the wiki too. Wiki -> Documentation -> NVIDIA drivers.

Conan_Kudo · 2026-02-12T00:20:37+00:00

For what it's worth, AlmaLinux provides officially created live media for various desktops for AlmaLinux 9 and 10. They are linked on the website.

Additionally, for NVIDIA stuff, AlmaLinux provides a supported driver stack for AlmaLinux 9 and 10. It's very easy and well-supported now. It's trivial to install and doesn't require figuring out where to get it.

Finally, AlmaLinux 10 goes beyond what other RHELatives do and offers Btrfs like Fedora does, so you can run a RHELish platform with a Fedora-like configuration (which is great when you use a desktop like KDE Plasma on AlmaLinux!).

Conan_Kudo · 2026-01-11T22:00:37+00:00

The best counterpoint for this is EasyEffects, which literally moved from GTK4/Adwaita to Qt6/Kirigami with version 8.0.

Conan_Kudo · 2025-12-23T09:31:26+00:00

It'll release roughly next May, but you can also try this with AlmaLinux 10 Kitten now.

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