Here’s something I found out this past week that I found to be interesting: When I checked in for a flight out of Gainesville, Fl I discovered that Delta has completely redesigned their boarding passes. It’s a complete redesign that throws out the concept of the “ticket stub” where a passenger receipt/stub would be ripped off of the larger ticket. In fact a lot of the information that used to clutter the boarding passes is being removed and simplified. Take a look at the image below. The top shows the new design that I got from a kiosk on Thursday – It’s very clean and (for the time being) there is a lot of white space. The one on the bottom is from last month and has much more information, most of which has no use to the average flyer.
New Versus Old Delta Boarding Passes
Generally I like this new layout and I think it will be a lot better when Delta adds the ability for multiple segments on a single boarding pass later this year. One feature you don’t see on the new design (but should actually be there – I dont know why the kiosk in ATL removed this) is the addition of how long of a layover you have. In this case it would have said “Layover 1h 19m” right above the departure time. The only thing I dont get is that “SKY PRIORITY” is in very small text – even smaller than the rest of the text around it. On the old design it was very clear and in two places nonetheless. We’ll have to see if this presents any issues since I often dont fit age or look of the average Platinum Medallion.
Now if Delta could just roll out mobile boarding pass capability at ECP I would be a very happy camper…
