Over the last year you’ve enjoyed the Delta app for iPhone®, BlackBerry® and Android™ with a lot of exciting updates along the way.
Today we’re pleased to announce the launch of the Delta app for Windows® Phone. Here’s what you can do:
- view or change seat assignments
- check upgrade/standby lists
- view your itinerary
- check in for flights
- get flight status
- set a parking reminder
Now with the Delta app on all of the major mobile platforms, you’ll be able to access your important flight information no matter what smartphone you’re using. Enjoy, and let us know your thoughts on even more features you’d like to see!
Jonathan Mayfield
Mobile Product Manager
September 1st, 2011 at 8:48 am
You forgot one major mobile platform – webOS! Please make your app available to TouchPad users. See https://developer.palm.com/ for more.
September 6th, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Looks great – very nice! Noticed a few issues – is this the right spot to report them?
- When first loading the flight info from my profile there seems to be some kind of a hang – like it’s taking a longer time to load than i’d expect.
- When going into my flight list the ability to check in isn’t updated automatically – i have to refresh each flight manually first, then it works.
- The text for view my flights, etc is kind of small and hard to hit with my finger each time – a little bigger clickable area might help.
- After clicking an option (like view my flights) the UI seems to hang at first making the user think that they need to re-select the option – when instead it’s processing but hanging.
- the color for the seat map is somewhat grey on white and difficult to see on my Focus AMOLED screen – maybe using something that contrasts more would help?
For reference, here’s a great collection of tips to iron out those final few performance and memory leak type of wrinkles: http://wordament.com/2011/08/26/how-we-improved-wordament/
Things I love: the calendar view is super-fast and works great, viewing boarding passes, being able to change seats, 1 click contact info. Great work so far and looking forward to any tweaks in the future!
Sean
September 7th, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Sean,
I’m happy to hear you’re enjoying the new app!
Many of your suggestions are already being included in the next few releases of our new Windows Phone app. I will make sure to include the rest of your observations when our mobile team meets again to discuss upcoming fixes and enhancements.
Thank you for taking the time to contact us.
Jonathan
September 8th, 2011 at 12:42 am
Glad to see WP7 getting support from more and more high profile companies. It’s nice to know the folks at Delta understand they can’t wait to support a platform until marketshare grows because it won’t unless there are apps to bring people to it.
Based on the timing of the release, did you release it as is in order to have a NoDo compatible version in the marketplace, and if that’s the case will the next update be optimized for Mango?
September 19th, 2011 at 9:42 am
I too am looking forward to the next update, hopefully it will take advantage of some new Mango features. If I could suggest a few
- Fast resume
- The ability to pin one of my upcoming flight to the home screen via deep linking and/or the ability to also pin a boarding pass via deep linking (in my opinion this would be great). When deep linking it would be helpful to have the screen you land on display the Gate, Departure time, Delay info, quick access to a boarding pass, the ability to buy gogo in-flight ahead of time, etc.
- I think it’d be great to have the option of sending myself a boarding pass via an SMS like I can do from the website
- a few usability tweaks and perf improvements would be great as well
- I’d suggest leveraging the new performance profiler for the phone in Visual Studio to tweak/tune the app
I am using the app quite a bit for quick check-ins and retrieving the boarding passes today, but due to some of the perf quirks I also check-in online and sms myself a boarding pass as well – the ability to do that via the app or ping a boardingpass or flight to the home screen would really help in my opinion.
Thanks for listening & I’m looking forward to the update!
Sean
September 29th, 2011 at 12:09 pm
I would like to see the boarding pass on the windows app like i do on my iphone.
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 6th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
I love to see the Mango updates to the Delta App recently – nice work on getting those out quickly. However, I’ve found a few quirks and at least one higher impact bug. Here’s how to reproduce the bug:
- Check in for a flight MSP – SEA (or whatever your flight is)
- pin the boarding pass to your home screen
- Fly the segment and leave the boarding pass pinned
- Check in for the return segment on the phone several days later
- When prompted pin the SEA – MSP boarding pass to the home screen
- Notice the pinned tile shows the correct airports SEA – MSP
- HOWEVER – click the pinned boarding pass and notice the several day old boarding pass comes up INSTEAD of the correct one. This is really bad – because if a user assumes the boarding pass that pops up is what they think it should be they could get the wrong time and miss a flight (BAD). I’ve reproduced this issue three times in the past two weeks – so it should be pretty easy to reproduce and investigate.
Second, here are a few suggestions based on using the app quite a bit recently
- Speed – this app is very slow. I’ve been able to tolerate it so far, but I’m about ready to give up on the app and just go back to the text message boarding pass.
- Auto refresh the data. I know you’re probably not refreshing the data as it’s so slow. But I have to click refresh every time to get the check in button to show up.
- History of boarding passes/flights. All the flights I’ve checked into still show up in my flight history. Can’t this be trimmed down to only active and future flights or flights in the past 30 days or something?
- Show the gate info, please show the gate info. Every time I check in for a flight my boarding pass doesn’t show the gate – so I have to remember the flight# and search on bing to get the flightAware data.
- Allow the ability to copy the flight number to the clipboard – OR make it an active hyperlink so I can click it and see either the flightAware site info or your own delta status info with the gate. It seems rather silly to have to remember the flight number and type it into Bing to find the flightAware data versus just clicking on it.
February 21st, 2013 at 1:06 pm
I really want to make use of this app but I cannot as it only allows you to logon with PIN and I only recently created my account so I only have a password. Please update this app ASAP so I can use it for my flights to vegas in April