Update:
Version 1.5 is available now with new features that let you view or change seat assignments and check upgrade/standby lists! Download it now.
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Last year we launched our BlackBerry® and iPhone apps to make life a little easier for on-the-go flyers. Now, we’re happy to announce our third smartphone app just for Android users. With this latest app, we have unique apps for all three of the most popular platforms in the US smartphone market reaching over 80% of smartphone users.
Download it today from the Android Market for convenient travel information wherever you are — check in, get your eBoarding Pass and even set a reminder for where you parked at the airport.
Plus, use the new app to:
- View flight status and gate information
- Search upcoming flight schedules
- Access your SkyMiles® account information
- View airport information and weather updates
Remember, when you’re in the air, you can use any of our apps or view delta.com for free by connecting to Gogo® Inflight Internet. Now you can keep up with business while you check your connecting flight information or make other travel plans.
With more than 50 cities around the world where you can use an eBoarding pass, all you need is your Android Delta app to get through check-in and on your way!
Let us know what you think about our newest app.
Jonathan M.
Delta.com
February 15th, 2011 at 1:40 am
Great app! Add rebooking feature to it like iPhone and also include ability to “Move to SD Card” as this does save Android users battery-life and phone storage space!
February 15th, 2011 at 11:11 am
I see that the app permissions require the user to share the location of the user/phone with Delta. Can you explain what need you have for the user’s location?
February 15th, 2011 at 6:39 pm
Looks good! Pretty smooth.
I had one issue when I try the parking feature, it force closes. I’m on a Droid 2.
Also, maybe in a future build, you could include Sky Club Locations in the Airport Info sections.
February 15th, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Good to see Android getting some love. Perhaps you can explain why the app requires the following seemingly unnecessary permissions?
-Read phone state and identity
-Fine (GPS) location, coarse (network-based) location
February 16th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Thanks! Downloaded it last night, and it works well on my Motorola Droid. It shows detailed itineraries and flight status quickly. What are future plans for this app? It would be nice to be able to click on the flight number from the itinerary to get flight status without having to start over from the homepage. Will it be updated to do any of the other stuff that is possible on the mobile website – like book flights and review Skymiles account activity?
February 16th, 2011 at 7:15 pm
It must have been written by an iPhone programmer
When the phone is turned to landscape the app stays in portrait the same is true when the slide keyboard is out (on a Google G2). This means that only the small portrait keyboard can be used which is slightly less easy than the landscape or slide out keyboard.
Searching schedule the on-screen keyboard covers the dates and the window doesn’t scroll so you have to press ‘done’ then start on the dates – these are of the + / – key setting if you try to type the values for some reason it does not want to know.
I have not used this to check in – yet.
Nor have I tried the idea of photographing where my car is parked
February 16th, 2011 at 8:10 pm
windows phone 7?
March 16th, 2011 at 10:56 am
Suggestion… When downloading a flight into my calendar, make the duration of the event the same as the duration of the flight, not one hour, as the application does now.
March 18th, 2011 at 6:19 pm
I have now had the application on my phone for a while.
On a couple of my multi-leg flights things went awry with weather and aircraft delays. The application did not tell me any of this – just what was on my printed ticket. Surely the application should update automatically with warnings of a flight cancellation or delay, even provide alternates to rebook to?
The other area of update that would be useful is the gate the flight is departing from/arriving to. This information is available to other applications on my phone surely a Delta application should have this too?
June 16th, 2011 at 12:08 pm
When will this be available for the Boost Mobile Samsung Prevail?
July 4th, 2011 at 7:06 am
The application did not tell me any of this – just what was on my printed ticket.
July 5th, 2011 at 5:13 pm
Why is this app incompatible with the HUAWEI Ideos? It runs Android 2.2… Are you planning to support it?
July 15th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
This app works only half the time. You might get one in every two boading passes. When it is working it really doesn’t do a whole lot. I wouldn’t waste my time downloading it.
July 19th, 2011 at 9:29 am
Any chance you can fix it to work with the PANDIGITAL NOVEL reader that has ANDROID 3.0 and wifi?
July 19th, 2011 at 10:26 am
It seems to be that no user requirements analysis was carried out. So you can photograph you car in a car park (?) but the system won’t tell you if your flight is delayed or about a gate change. It would be extremely simple to list standard traveler requirements and then prioritize them and implement. I don’t believe this is difficult and all the information is available.
(If Delta wants help on this as their IT department cannot do it I would be happy to provide a requirement spec and validation tests.)
July 21st, 2011 at 8:49 pm
How about an app for Windows Phone 7, like the one from BA?
August 10th, 2011 at 7:08 am
I’ve been using the app on my HTC thunderbolt for a few weeks now and think the app is great. I think there are some improvements I would like to see in the next update (unless I am missing some settings):
When I make changes to a reservation (via phone or web) the reservation does not update within the app, even though the app appears to “log in” and refresh each time I start the app. I think the app may just be syncing for new reservations and not changes. I can force a refresh once inside the app which seems to work.
Once i have manually refreshed the itineraries I am thinking that this refresh still does not update the reminders. I think once a reminder has been added it is not being updated from the latest itineraries.
It would be nice to see the flight status from within the itinerary and/or boarding pass, or at least a link to look up the flight status of that flight. Currently I have to go to itinerary and memorize flight number, then go back to flight status and manually type in flight number.
Not sure what FAA guidelines are on this one but recently only got a seat request instead of a boarding pass on one of my flights which resulted in the inability to use the phone app as the boarding document as ID for TSA. Seat requests look like they do not produce a QR code/boarding pass that I can use to scan with TSA and use phone instead of a paper ticket. I understand that a boarding pass and a seat request are not the same type of document but seems that it could still be used for ID, but I can see where this might be a TSA/FAA thing.
Another feature I would like to see is a setting/option to not allow the phone to sleep or the screen to go dark when the QR code/boarding pass is up/active. This would prevent a little fumbling at the TSA ID check station.
Thanks for the great app and glad to see Android gettin some love. Thanks!
August 29th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Would love to see an App for Windows Phone 7 – if you are looking for Design Guidance on how to really take advantage of Windows Phone 7′s unique user interface, I would look at British Airway’s Application: http://www.britishairways.com/travel/windows-7-app/public/en_gb
October 5th, 2011 at 9:55 pm
# 7 monyline Says:
October 4th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
When will the Android Bionic be able to display bar code so mobile boarding pass can be utilized? What a let down when I switched from IPhone. I hope it’s just me but without the barcode mobile boarding pass is worthless except for I suppose getting on wait list for upgrade.
November 20th, 2011 at 7:23 pm
I have been using this App for a few months now and have a love/hate relationship going. This has reduced my airport check in time considerably, but the app needs a tune up on the following points:
1. Allow mobile boarding pass to be saved to phone – with online refresh only if requested. I check in the day before – nothing changes, don’t make me point and click my way through a bunch of windows to get the SAME information.
2. Date freeze – a number of times the delta app has had a brain freeze, and doesn’t realize that time works on a continum. In other words, it says my trip is in 5 days… for days and won’t let me check in.
3. Provide text updates on flight when checked in on mobile – allow user to ‘check a box’ to automatically recieve SMS when user checks in on the mobile app and flight time or gate changes after check in.
It is very important that the app perform the primary function, flawlessly. Don’t bother adding/fixing additional functionality until the mobile check in a boarding is perfect. This is the feature that is provided to a busy person in a critical situation – getting to and on the plane on time.
For a weekly Delta flyer – this app could be a real game changer if it worked ALL the time. Would love an extra segment each time I checked in using my mobile app – that would really increase adoption!
November 22nd, 2011 at 10:03 pm
Just as a suggestion, United airlines app has their standby list on the flight status, I would love for this feature to be on Delta’s.
December 26th, 2012 at 7:18 pm
Im guessing this blog is dead, since the version of App says its “updated” to 1.5, and Im running 1.7.
That said, hopefully Deltas monitoring??
This application for Android has a frustrating bug. If I look at my itinary, and it shows 2 flights with a layover, and I want to add it to calender (whether Google or synch), it ONLY gets the first flight. It does NOT load any subsequent flights on a trip.
I can’t believe Im the only one who has this happen, or actually the only one who would like ALL the flights of a trip shown??
This app frequently locks.
It also is nearly impossible to kill without shutting down the phone when it does lock. It doesnt even show running in the “running applications”, so is not able to be “force shutdown”.
Thanks
December 26th, 2012 at 9:31 pm
Just downloaded, entered Skymiles #, Last Name and Pin# correctly. Yes, I know it’s correct, 35+ years application development. It keeps going back to the Last Name and there is no functionality to hide the keyboard to see what is underneath.
This is on a Samsung Galaxy S3 with Android 4.1.1 Jellybean on Verizon.