Last week Delta Skyclubs rolled out their first round of enhancements after increasing Skyclub prices and previewing enhancements earlier this year which included new food items, spa services, and amenities such as shoe shines. The first enhancement included a new menu which appeared to include a growing list of items of which the SkyClub currently did not offer. The long list was quite deceptive to the naked eye, looking as though it included 50 plus Items, but really only include a few food options with flavors of muffins and description of fruit jams, wheat vs white toast and items such as milk taking up an entire line themselves. As one could imagine the new breakfast spread really wasn’t much of an enhancement. Before the new menu rolled out last week Delta clubs already included: Oatmeal and fixing, bagels, yogurt, fresh fruit, mini cinnamon rolls, scones, mini waffles, and a slew of spreads and jams. So what was really added? Cereal, hard boil eggs, and English muffins.
Start Your Day Right
- Locally Sourced Bagels
- Thomas Honey Wheat English Muffin
- Thomas English Muffin
- Oatmeal
- Hard Boiled Eggs
- Otis Spunkmeyer Mini Muffins
- Banana
- Blueberry
- Chocolate Chip
- Raisin Bran Cereal
- Cheerios Cereal
- Corn Flakes Cereal
- Granola Cereal
- Yoplait Greek Strawberry Yogurt
- Yoplait Greek Honey Vanilla Yogurt
- Fruit Salad
- Skim Milk
- 2% Milk
- Philadelphia Cream Cheese
- Promise Soft Spread
- Butter
- Dickinson’s Orange Marmalade
- Dickinson’s Grape Jam
- Dickinson’s Strawberry Preserves
- Smucker’s Honey
- Smucker’s Peanut Butter
- Mixed Raisins
Dig Into Delicious Lunch And Dinner Options
- King Nut Ranch Pretzel Mix
- King Nut Zesty Nut Mix
- Skinny Pop Popcorn
- Tomato Basil Flatbread Crackers
- Dip/n Classic Hummus
- Dip/n Olive Tapenade
- Rondele Garlic & Herb Spread
- Rondele Peppercorn Parmesan Spread
- Cookie Tree Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies
- Cookie Tree Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
- Kettle Cuisine Tomato and Garden Vegetable Soup
- Kettle Cuisine Italian Wedding Soup
- Olives (Country Olive Mix, Mediterranean Meze & Nicoise)
- Marinated Mushrooms
Vegetable Crudités
- Carrots
- Celery
- Broccoli
- Pepper Strips
Fresh, Whole Fruit, Green Salad
- Apples
- Oranges
- Bananas
- Pecan & Cranberry Chicken Salad
- Balsamic Dressing
- Ranch Dressing
- Ranch Vegetable Dip
I visited the Skyclub in Salt Lake City, Delta’s hub, and I expected to be wooed by the new dining options. Instead, I found a table full of carbs with a small toaster which can only hold two bagels or 4 slices of toast at the epicenter. Long queues formed as the industrial toaster toasted one item per minute and patrons waited semi-patiently all grumbling that Delta need more than one toaster—especially in a hub city! The Atkins unfriendly food options were abundant in SLC and to no surprise, the breakfast buffet was missing the only solid source of protein: eggs.
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I visited the SLC Skyclub last Friday (8/15) and Monday (8/18) and the options did not change nor were there anything new on Monday that was not available on Friday morning. The Skyclub enhancements are little of an upgrade over what Skyclubs offered before and are still subpar when comparing the offering to Delta’s competitors overseas, or those airlines just North or South of the border. The food option still are better than that of United and American, but fall behind Alaska’s famous pancake machine. If you’re hungry, my advice to you—skip the Skyclub and find something in the airport, the extra $8 will be worth it!
