Furious Delta passengers get revenge for flight delays by abusing luxury perks in the airport lounge

Two passengers sewage their revenge connected Delta aft their formation was delayed by abusing nan perks of nan airline's SkyClub lounge.

TikTok personification Kyle Philippi filmed himself and his friend filling themselves pinch free nutrient and pouring their complimentary vino successful nan bin aft nan hose refused to compensate him for nan delay.

The hilarious video, posted Wednesday, besides saw them bargain magazines, pump retired manus sanitizer successful excess, fto nan showers tally and quiet nan shampoo and conditioner bottles. The hold appeared to beryllium related to past week's Microsoft outage.

The clip began pinch nan text: 'POV [Point of View]: Delta doesn't compensate for thousands of dollars mislaid from delaying retired flights for days truthful we gonna' get it backmost successful nan SkyClub.' 

While nan caption read:  'This will group them back.'

Philippe told DailyMail.com he was portion of a group of 10 travelling to Quito, Ecuador for a week serving children successful mediocre neighborhoods.

He said: 'We already paid for groceries, transportation, lodging, inflatables for nan kids. When our formation was cancelled each these things sewage paid for and waisted because we couldn’t alert retired for days'

Users successful nan comments said Philippi's video was due justness for the  hose pursuing past week's delays, cancellations and mile-long queues triggered by a Microsoft outage.

One wrote: 'I won’t dishonesty pouring nan vino retired went hard.'

Another said: 'My transportation connected would beryllium thing but snacks for nan full flight.'

A 3rd added:  'As personification who has been wholly wronged by Delta, convey you for your service!'

Delta charges travelers a premium because of its reliable reputation. But, arsenic of Tuesday greeting nan hose had already cancelled 173 flights.

That accounted for 11 percent of each of their flights crossed nan US, while nan hose had delayed a further 115 flights that aforesaid day.

By comparison, American Airlines had canceled conscionable 2 flights arsenic of 7:30am connected Tuesday, and United had to driblet only 1 flight.

Travelers person been sleeping astatine nan airdrome since nan meltdown began connected Friday which caused Delta to cancel complete 5,500 flights since nan outage.

Delta blamed having to manually-reset much than 1,500 of its systems for nan chaos - though it is still unclear why nan hose has been truthful overmuch worse-affected than rivals.

The Department of Transportation has now launched an investigation into nan hose complete nan fiasco.