Popular: Biz class sale + Delta Shuttle + TSA mess + New routes + Award travel sale

Graceful lineup of Delta tails at ATL (Photo: Chris McGinnis)

After a week in Cuba and another week in Atlanta, I’m glad to be back in San Francisco! With all the hoo-hah over security lines at ATL, I was sure to arrive two hours early on Saturday at around 9 a.m. Much to my surprise, the PreCheck line had a ZERO-minute wait. Seriously, I was the only person in line and sped right through.

Chicken salad, melon & prosciutto for lunch on American Airlines in first class, ATL-PHX (Photo: Chris McGinnis)

I flew American Airlines on this trip (using AAdvantage award), and was surprised that my flight to SFO via PHX did not depart from ATL’s T-gates. Instead, I had to trundle out to the old US Airways gates on D. Arriving in SFO, same thing happened: I was expecting a nice walk through American’s T2, but instead, we arrived at the old US Airways’ gate in Delta’s T1C boarding area. One thing I did notice in PHX is that American is making rapid progress on painting all its jets in AA livery– I only saw one US Airways jet, which of course was the A320 I flew from PHX to SFO. –Chris

TravelSkills’ 10 most popular posts over the last week (descending order):

1 Act fast! British Airways business class sale (expired, but we’ll keep an eye out for more)

2 Delta expands West Coast Shuttle

3 New solutions emerge for TSA airport security mess

4 Routes: San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, LAX, Salt Lake City, Denver + more…

5 Briefs: Alaska/JAL, AA biz seats, BA Wi-Fi, Lufthansa in Silicon Valley

6 Are passengers really happy with air travel?

7 Uber’s getting headaches from Harvard Business School

Getting a shave from a new Cuban friend in Cienfuegos (Photo: Mia Taylor)

8 Curious about Cuba? Don’t miss this [PHOTOS]

9 Hyperloop approaching faster than expected

10 Should I tip my Uber or Lyft driver? [Poll]

In case you missed Saturday’s post: Award seats: More on Delta; fewer on United

Chris goofing around with The Points Guy founder Brian Kelly in SF to give away a million JetBlue miles in a promo with Barclaycard (Photo: Chris McGinnis)

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Delta Award Travel Sale for fall trips

How to tip hotel front desk clerk. But would you?

JetBlue’s new status match program

ATL security still a mess. Check wait times here.

Don’t forget to register for Starwood’s new Triple Up summer promotion

Rolls Royce introduces new luggage line. But the pricetag? Whoa!